Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class

Autores
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio; López Calva, Luis Felipe; Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Año de publicación
2009
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inglés
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versión publicada
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The main motivation of this paper is to discuss the existing empirical implementations of the middle class in the applied literature and to derive a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis. The document also provides comparative results on the extent and evolution of middle classes from a variety of existing definitions since the early 1990s for six Latin American countries. To avoid some of the arbitrariness of traditional measures, we propose an endogenous definition based on the polarization literature. Other socioeconomic features of the middle classes in the region according to different definitions are described and discussed. The results are also presented for the lower and upper classes.
El principal objetivo es discutir una serie de medidas de clase media implementadas en la literatura empírica y proponer una definición acorde a los principios del análisis distributivo. El documento provee resultados comparativos sobre el tamaño y evolución de la clase media desde principio de los 90's para seis países latinoamericanos a partir de varias definiciones existentes. Para evitar cierta arbitrariedad de las medidas tradicionales, proponemos una definición basada en la literatura de polarización. Se documentan también otras características socioeconómicas de la clase media. Los resultados se presentan también para la clase alta y la clase baja de cada definición.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
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title Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
spellingShingle Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
title_short Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_full Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_fullStr Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_full_unstemmed Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_sort Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
author_facet Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
topic Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The main motivation of this paper is to discuss the existing empirical implementations of the middle class in the applied literature and to derive a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis. The document also provides comparative results on the extent and evolution of middle classes from a variety of existing definitions since the early 1990s for six Latin American countries. To avoid some of the arbitrariness of traditional measures, we propose an endogenous definition based on the polarization literature. Other socioeconomic features of the middle classes in the region according to different definitions are described and discussed. The results are also presented for the lower and upper classes.
El principal objetivo es discutir una serie de medidas de clase media implementadas en la literatura empírica y proponer una definición acorde a los principios del análisis distributivo. El documento provee resultados comparativos sobre el tamaño y evolución de la clase media desde principio de los 90's para seis países latinoamericanos a partir de varias definiciones existentes. Para evitar cierta arbitrariedad de las medidas tradicionales, proponemos una definición basada en la literatura de polarización. Se documentan también otras características socioeconómicas de la clase media. Los resultados se presentan también para la clase alta y la clase baja de cada definición.
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
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