Search Results - subject_exact:"Middle class"

Hit the road Juan : welfare and labor market effects of high-quality roads in Ecuador

Bolivar, Osmar; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Balthrop, … - 2026

Road infrastructure boosts economic opportunities and thus contributes to poverty alleviation. This paper investigates the causal impact of paved primary roads on poverty and income mobility in Ecuador, with particular attention to the mechanisms through which these effects materialize....

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The middle class and vulnerability to income poverty : implications for social protection in the Philippines

Cabalfin, Deanne Lorraine D.; Albert, Jose Ramon; … - 2026

The Philippines aspires to become a predominantly middle-class society by 2040. Significant strides have been achieved in the reduction of extreme poverty. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of recent gains and the vulnerability of many households to economic shocks. This study...

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The anxious middle class : risk of downward mobility and support for radical right parties across Western Europe

Derndorfer, Judith - 2025

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The anxious middle class: risk of downward mobility and support for radical right parties across Western Europe

Derndorfer, Judith - 2023

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Artificial intelligence, the collapse of consumer society, and oligarchy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2025

This paper examines the potential for automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to induce a broader economic decline, impacting not only labor but also the owners of capital and advanced technology. While automation has traditionally favored skilled over unskilled workers, recent advancements...

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Artificial Intelligence, the Collapse of Consumer Society, and Oligarchy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2025

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"You can't always get what you want" : middle-class expectations and incomplete social contracts in the Global South

Rougier, Eric; Clément, Matthieu; Combarnous, François; … - 2025

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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2025

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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024

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Japan's quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation

Whittaker, David H. - 2024

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Degrees of vulnerability to poverty : a low-income dynamics approach for Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2024

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Degrees of vulnerability to poverty : a low-income dynamics approach for Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2024

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Degrees of vulnerability to poverty : a low-income dynamics approach for Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2023

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Wealth creation for expanding the middle class in the Philippines

Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Briones, Roehlano M.; Rivera, … - 2024

The Philippines has set an ambitious goal of becoming a predominantly middle-class society free of poverty by 2040. However, this aspiration comes at a time of significant global headwinds that pose risks to the country's development trajectory. Growing the middle class is more closely related...

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The middle class and vulnerability to income poverty: Implications for social protection in the Philippines

Cabalfin, Deanne Lorraine D.; Albert, Jose Ramon; … - 2026

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Striving for Economic Security : Emerging Middle Class in the East Asia and Pacific Region

Krah, Kwabena; Montalva Talledo, Veronica Sonia; … - 2026

The East Asia and Pacific region has made remarkable progress on poverty reduction, transforming the economic lives of hundreds of millions of people. With growth prospects dimmer in a world that is increasingly polarized, the question of what it will take to convert the success in poverty...

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Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - 2026

When do people identify with their class? Evidence from social psychology shows that individuals are more likely to identify with a group if they are similar to its members. We study early 20th century Britain and show that regional cultural heterogeneity combined with internal migration...

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Migration and the making of the English middle class

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - 2026

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Migration and the making of the english middle class

Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - 2026

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How is Israel's Middle Class Faring? : Income Trends, Occupational Change and the Rising Cost of Living

2026

Thriving middle classes are the backbone of democratic and economically prosperous societies: they drive innovation, underpin economic resilience, and are essential for social cohesion. However, transforming labour markets and rising living costs have put pressure on middle-class households...

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Is Tunisia's democracy on its deathbed? : social capital, economic insecurity, middle class and attitudes toward democracy

Ben Jelili, Riadh - 2023

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On non-robustness of income polarization measures to housing cycles

Alexeev, Sergey - 2023

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Developmental dictatorship and middle class-driven democratisation

Park, Hyungmin - 2023

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

Never, Babette; Anselmetti, Chiara - 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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Inequality, current account imbalances, and middle incomes

Blomme, Océane; Héricourt, Jérôme - 2025

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Inequality, current account imbalances and middle incomes

Blomme, Océane; Héricourt, Jérôme - 2023

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Anchoring measurement of the middle-income class to subjective evaluation

Pittau, M. Grazia; Zelli, Roberto - 2023

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Middle class in Ukraine : government or opposition?

Yakovlev, Denys; Yakovleva, Liliya; Koltsov, Vitaly - 2023

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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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Emerging middles: Class, development and the halal economy in Indonesia and Malaysia

Fischer, Johan; Nisa, Eva F. - 2025

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Exploring Africa's heterogenous middle class' brand behaviour in the new digital age : practical insights from a multiple country study

Chikweche, Tendai; Lappeman, James; Mohammed, Hossain; … - 2025

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The poor, the rich and the middle class : experimental evidence from heterogeneous public good games

Derbyshire, Daniel W.; Drouvelis, Michalis; Grosskopf, Brit - 2025

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Financial shocks and savings amongst Africa's middle class : insights from FinTech data

Abubakar, Jamila; Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Disli, Mustafa; … - 2025

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Emerging middles : class, development and the halal economy in Indonesia and Malaysia

Fischer, Johan; Nisa, Eva F. - 2025

The rise of the middle classes in the Global South plays a key role in global development arguments characterized by "converging divergence," where there are decreasing inequalities between countries and increasing inequalities within countries. The concept of the middle class in the social...

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Supplementary commodity taxes, labor tax on the middle class, and the tax-mix

Nishimura, Yukihiro - 2025

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Testing for Canadian distributional change : declining middle class, rising top income shares and widening income gaps

Beach, Charles M. - 2025

This paper combines quantile-based disaggregative statistics and standard error formulas for the statistics to examine changes in the distribution of individuals' incomes in Canada within a standard statistical inference framework. Analysis focuses on decile means and income shares, Lorenz...

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Rise of the Indian middle class and its impact on the labor market

Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael Jan - 2022

The world is changing its socio-economic landscape. By doing so, the phenomenon of a growing middle-class appears. Both household surveys and growth projections suggest that only about one-third of the global middle class is based in Asia. However, between 2009 and 2017, the global middle-class...

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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and its Impact on the Labor Market

Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael - 2022

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The voice of the middle class and economic democracy in Ukraine

Yakovlev, Denys; Borovyk, Liudmyla; Diachenko, Olha - 2022

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Adaptation of the middle class to innovation : perception of new technologies and openness to them

Pishnyak, Alina I.; Khalina, Natalia V. - 2022

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The "forgotten" middle class : an analysis of the effects of globalisation

Pleninger, Regina; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2022

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The "forgotten" middle class : an analysis of the effects of globalisation

Pleninger, Regina; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019

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Wealth creation for expanding the middle class in the Philippines

Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Briones, Roehlano M.; Rivera, … - 2024

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The Effect of International Sanctions on the Size of the Middle Class in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024

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Role of desired attitudes in shaping sustainable gender role preferences : a case study of the middle class in Lahore, Pakistan

Mursaleen, Huma - 2024

As gender equality is the basis for realizing social-environmental-economic sustainability, inequality in gender can significantly hamper economic productivity and negatively affect individuals' lives. This study examines the desired attitudes towards gender norms that can be used to improve...

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Caught in the middle? : China and the "middle income trap"

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2024

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Hollowing out of middle-pay jobs in Ohio : an exploratory analysis

Pham, Tuyen; Khalaf, Christelle; Jolley, G. Jason; … - 2024

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Former Soviet Union middle class : how entrepreneurs are shaping a new stratum and pattern of socio-economic behavior

Otar, Elmira; Salikzhanov, Rinat; Akhmetova, Aigul; … - 2024

The purpose of this study is to create a representative socio-economic profile of entrepreneurs operating in the former Soviet Union (FSU) states as a pillar of the new middle-class stratum. This study explored middle-class entrepreneurship from multiple perspectives, encompassing statistical...

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Die schweigende Mehrheit auf der Straße? : Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Teilnehmer:innen an den Protesten gegen Rechtsextremismus

Bitschnau, Marco; Koos, Sebastian - 2024

Seit Jahresbeginn 2024 finden deutschlandweit Proteste gegen Rechtsextremismus großen Zulauf. Doch ist es tatsächlich eine "schweigende Mehrheit", die hier für Demokratie aufsteht? In diesem Policy Paper stellen wir die Ergebnisse einer Befragung dreier Protestveranstaltungen vor und...

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Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?

Oyèkọ́lá, Ọláyínká - 2024

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Developments in income inequality and the middle class in the EU

2024

This report provides a comprehensive examination of trends in income inequality within and between the EU Member States from 2006 to 2021. The study also aims to answer the related question of whether the middle class is becoming smaller because of developments in respect of disparities in...

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Developments in income inequality and the middle class in the EU

2024

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Class conflict and spatial domination in the neoliberal city

Castilhos, Rodrigo B. - 2024

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Marketing financial services in Africa : exploring the heterogeneous middle-class consumer across nine countries

Chikweche, Tendai; Lappeman, James; Egan, Paul - 2024

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Middle-class attainment in young adulthood : higher education, student debt, and racial wealth inequality

Addo, Fenaba R. - 2024

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Polarisation of employment in Czechia and neighbouring countries

Náplava, Radek - 2024

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The decline of the middle class : new evidence for Europe

Derndorfer, Judith; Kranzinger, Stefan - 2021

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income...

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Time, income and subjective wellbeing - 20 years of interdependent multidimensional polarization in Germany

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

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Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2021

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Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2021

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Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018

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Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2021

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Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class

Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2018

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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021

Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...

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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021

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The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2022

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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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