Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
- Autores
- Cruces, Guillermo; López Calva, Luis Felipe; Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
- Año de publicación
- 2011
- Idioma
- español castellano
- Tipo de recurso
- documento de trabajo
- Estado
- versión enviada
- 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.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - Materia
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Economía
distribución de la riqueza
América Latina
clase media
ingreso - Nivel de accesibilidad
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- Condiciones de uso
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- Institución
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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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 Economía distribución de la riqueza América Latina clase media ingreso |
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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 |
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Cruces, Guillermo López Calva, Luis Felipe Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Cruces, Guillermo López Calva, Luis Felipe Battistón, Diego Ezequiel |
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Economía distribución de la riqueza América Latina clase media ingreso |
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Economía distribución de la riqueza América Latina clase media ingreso |
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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. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) |
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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. |
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