Torche, Florencia; Lopez-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra …-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short … Mexico and Chile, indicating that the middle class has the opportunity to move to higher levels of wellbeing but it is also …