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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2011
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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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
title Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
spellingShingle 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
title_short Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
title_full Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
title_fullStr Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
title_sort Down and out or up and in? : Polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cruces, Guillermo
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author Cruces, Guillermo
author_facet Cruces, Guillermo
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author_role author
author2 López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Economía
distribución de la riqueza
América Latina
clase media
ingreso
topic Economía
distribución de la riqueza
América Latina
clase media
ingreso
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Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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