Abstract

 
 
 Economic and social structural change over the last 30 years have had a decisive impact on the development and the structure of the poor population in Germany. Rising unemployment has been accompanied by growing poverty, which in the contribution is defined by reference to welfare recipiency rates. Apart from the unemployed, foreigners and children have also become special groups with a high risk of poverty, partly as a consequence of deep structural changes in the demographic make-up of Germany’s population. The main focus of the article is the description and analysis of spatial disparities in Germany in respect of poverty, especially the west-east and the north-south divide, as well as urban-rural differences and inner-city segregation. Important determinants of these disparities are the relative size of risk groups in the respective populations., but also policies (especially labour-market policies in eastern Germany) and behavioural differences. The observed disparity patterns are quite stable over time. The most dynamic development is taking place in eastern (formerly East) Germany, where over the 1990s the urban-rural disparity pattern has become more and more similar to that found in western Germany.
 
 
 
 
 
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