relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on … than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita. -- poverty ; middle class ; income ; institutions …

. The middle class is identified as people living in households with income per capita between $10 and $50 per day, adjusted … for purchasing power parity. This income-based definition is conceptually and empirically grounded in the analysis of … increased from 20 to 30 percent and its income share increased from 40 to nearly 50 percent (from about 1990 to 2010). Adults in …

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …

European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on … importance of income vulnerability for the middle class is on a par with (or even greater than) economic factors such as severe … the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …