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The east German as victim and villain

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Jörg Luyken
Jan 07, 2022
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East Germans are all too often portrayed either as the victim or the villain - as some new data on income shows.

An east German who works a full-time job is twice as likely to be on a low-income salary as someone in the west - that’s the conclusion of a study on wages published on Thursday by the Hans Böckler Stiftung.

The study found that 29 percent of w…

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