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标题：Increasing Persistent Poverty in Germany.
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作者：Olaf Groh-Samberg
期刊名称：Weekly Report / Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung
印刷版ISSN：1860-3343
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
页码：21-26
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：Income poverty in Germany has reached its highest level for twenty years. This statistic is often seen as proof of the existence and growth of a 'decoupled underclass'. In other scenarios large sections of society appear to be facing collapse into poverty. If the duration of individual phases of poverty and the different dimensions of life in which need can occur are included in the analysis persistent poverty does appear to be on the increase. An increase in vulnerability, that is, swinging between 'middle class' and 'poor' is not evident. Those mainly affected by persistent poverty are still workers, particularly working class families with a background in migration or with several children. But to interpret poverty in Germany as the problem of a culturally destitute underclass or to dramatize it as the whole of society facing collapse is unrealistic.