Category Archives: Ungleichheit

Kann man die Staatsbürgerschaft und das Aufenthaltsrecht in einem Staat kaufen?

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Ja, kann man. Malta verkauft die Staatsbürgerschaft für 1,15 Mio. Euro – so “DIE ZEIT” (vom 29.4.2015, S. 28). Neu ist das nicht:

“Malta steht nicht allein. Auch Zypern verkauft seine Staatsbürgerschaft für drei Millionen Euro. Billiger ist es in Bulgarien: Wer 500.000 Euro investiert, kann ohne Sprachkenntnisse eingebürgert werden. Großbritannien vergibt gegen eine Investition von einer Million Pfund zunächst ein Visum, nach fünf Jahren unbegrenztes Aufenthaltsrecht und nach sechs Jahren den Pass. Auch Österreich verkauft EU-Pässe gegen Millionen-Investitionen…” (Die Welt, Online-Ausgabe vom 22.8.2014]])

Siehe dazu auch das Video von Michael Sandel.… Mehr lesen...

“Wall Street bonuses twice the income of all minimum wage workers”

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“1,007,000 Americans working full-time earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. All of that pay, to all of those people, for all of 2014 adds up to $14 billion dollars. And that is less than half of what employees on Wall Street earned in bonuses alone.” (Source: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/04/18/wall-street-bonuses-twice-the-income-of-all-minimum-wage-workers/)

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Germany – Chartbook of Economic Inequality

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Max Roser gives an “Overview of Trends of Economic Inequality in Germany“. This is his summarizing interpretation of the data, see also his wonderful chart.

“Has the dispersion of earnings been increasing in recent decades? – Yes, top decile has risen from 150 per cent of median in 1950s to 190 per cent at end of 2000s.
Has overall inequality increased in recent years? – Yes, the Gini coefficient in 2010 was 3 percentage points higher than in 1998.
Have there been periods when overall inequality fell for a sustained period? – Overall inequality (and poverty) fell over the 1960s and 1970s.
Has poverty been falling or rising in recent decades? – Poverty rate increased from 10 per cent to 15 per cent between 1998 and 2010.
Has there been a U-pattern for top income shares over time? – No, top gross income shares were relatively

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