Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
- Autores
- Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; Lopez Calva, Luis Felipe; Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
- Año de publicación
- 2011
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of distributional analysis and derived from income polarization measures. The document illustrates the differences between the existing approaches and the proposed methodology with a comparative analysis of the extent and evolution of the middle classes since the early 1990s in six Latin American countries. The polarization-based measurements of the middle class are shown to exhibit a greater degree of homogeneity in terms of some key socioeconomic characteristics than other measures employed in the literature
Fil: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
Fil: Lopez Calva, Luis Felipe. Banco Mundial; Estados Unidos
Fil: Battistón, Diego Ezequiel. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina - Materia
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MIDDLE CLASS
DISTRIBUTION
POLARIZATION
LATIN AMERICA - Nivel de accesibilidad
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Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America |
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Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America |
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Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America Cruces, Guillermo Antonio MIDDLE CLASS DISTRIBUTION POLARIZATION LATIN AMERICA |
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Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America |
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Down and out or up and in? Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America |
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Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Lopez Calva, Luis Felipe Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Cruces, Guillermo Antonio |
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Cruces, Guillermo Antonio Lopez Calva, Luis Felipe Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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MIDDLE CLASS DISTRIBUTION POLARIZATION LATIN AMERICA |
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MIDDLE CLASS DISTRIBUTION POLARIZATION LATIN AMERICA |
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