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Die Entwicklung der Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland

Kucsera, Dénes; Lorenz, Hanno; Nagl, Wolfgang - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 102 (2022) 10, pp. 789-794

Wir untersuchen die Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf den Veränderungen der … vergangenen 20 Jahre liegt. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Mittelschicht in Deutschland und Österreich in ihrer Zusammensetzung … als in Deutschland, den Großteil der Bevölkerung umfasst. Anschließend analysieren wir die Bedeutung der Mittelschicht für …

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A conceptual model of the influence of South African investor well-being on risk tolerance

Masenya, R. W.; Dickason Koekemoer, Zandri - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-15

Financial institutions have the responsibility to measure an investor's risk tolerance to determine his or her risk profile. Once an investor's risk profile is determined, financial institutions are able to more accurately identify which financial products are suitable for the investor. Several...

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The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa : a gender comparison

Harrichurran, Priyanka; Vermaak, Claire; Muller, Colette - 2021

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey. Studying leisure time is important since the allocation of time outside the market provides insights into market behaviour and physical and...

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The impact of urbanisation on poverty reduction in South Africa : a non-linear ARDL approach

Magombeyi, Mercy Tsitsi; Odhiamob, Nicholas M. - In: Croatian review of economic, business and social … 10 (2024) 2, pp. 17-28

The asymmetric impact of urbanisation on poverty reduction was examined for South Africa employing data from 1990 to 2022. The study was motivated by the need to establish the effects of positive and negative shocks on poverty reduction. The study used the non-linear autoregressive distributed...

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African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa : exploring their economic contributions

Ngota, Bernard Lama; Rajkaran, Sookdhev; Mang’unyi, … - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 7 (2019) 4, pp. 33-55

Objective: The objective of this article is to determine the economic opportunities created by African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa. Furthermore, it is to investigate the impact that Afrophobia has on economic opportunities created by African immigrant entrepreneurs in South Africa....

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Exploring emerging markets' demographic and macroeconomic dynamics and the middle class growth : the case of China and India

Korez Vide, Romana; Zavrl, Irena; Hunjet, Anica - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 67 (2021) 4, pp. 33-55

Emerging markets' political, economic, and social transition processes led to altered demographic trends and new macroeconomic dynamics in these economies. These changes triggered the growth of the middle class that became an essential factor of emerging markets' attractiveness for sales and...

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The vulnerability aspect of happiness : the European middle class perspective

Benczúr, Péter; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2023

This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on well-being and national aggregates from the World...

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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia

Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021

In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...

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Political participation patterns of the emerging middle classes in Peru and the Philippines

Never, Babette; Anselmetti, Chiara - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

The growing middle classes in middle-income countries may play a key role in current trends of democratic backsliding, online activism and lifestyle politics. This contribution uncovers which modes of political participation are prevalent among the middle classes in Peru and the Philippines,...

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Nigeria on the move : a journey to inclusive growth, moving toward a middle-class society

Weltbank - 2020

Frequently referred to as the Giant of Africa, Nigeria is growing slower than its population and large numbers of people are poor. With gross national income per capita of US $2,100 (in 2017; Atlas method, WDI), Nigeria is classified as a lower-middle-income country. It is richly endowed, has a...

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