The return to education of the middle class is at stake

However, new figures from the Federal Statistical Office leave nothing to be desired in terms of clarity. They show a very clear tendency on the German labor market: by far the strongest increase in their wages has not recently been recorded by the highly qualified, but by the unskilled. If one differentiates the employees according to performance groups, the lower performance group, that of unskilled workers, managed to increase their collectively agreed earnings by 10.2 percent between 2020 and 2022.