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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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Geplünderte Mittelschicht? : Systematisierungsangebote am Beispiel des Elterngeldes

Pfäffle, Lukas; Lang, Markus - 2026

Die Einbindung der Mittelschicht in den deutschen Sozialstaat ist ambivalent: Während öffentliche Diskurse sie als geplündert darstellen, verweisen Analysen zugleich auf ihre strukturellen Privilegien. Der Beitrag untersucht diese Ambiguität am Beispiel des Elterngeldes, das trotz...

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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

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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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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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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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Building the Filipino Middle Class : Towards Resilient Futures and Poverty Eradication

2026

This report examines the Philippines' progress in poverty reduction and shared prosperity, and identifies priority reforms needed to build a secure, resilient middle class in line with the national vision of Ambisyon Natin 2040, a prosperous, predominantly middle-class society free of poverty by...

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

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

Bitschnau, Marco; Koos, Sebastian - 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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Japan's quest for a sustainable, virtuous circle of growth and innovation

Whittaker, David H. - 2024

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

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 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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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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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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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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A cross-country investigation of the impact of heterogeneity on African middle-class shopping behaviour and distribution channel selection

Chikweche, Tendai; Lappeman, James; Mohhamed, Hossain; … - 2026

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The "trickle-across" phenomenon : consumption-mimicking in emerging markets in a stress environment

Belbağ, Aybegüm Güngördü; Deligonul, Seyda Z.; … - 2026

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Analysing the expectation vs. satisfaction gaps and prioritising dimensions of service quality for middle-class restaurant sector

Mohammed Yusoof Muhammad Yunis; Rafikul Islam; Siti … - 2026

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Consumer culture in transition : aesthetic consumption in China's new middle class

Liu, Xi; Liu, Guilin; Xu, Gaoxiang - 2026

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Building middle class nations : inclusive economic development for the Global South

Jouti, Ahmed Tahiri - 2026

1. The Middle Class Nations -- 2. The Lifts and Nets Framework for Public Policies -- 3. Lifts and Nets Mechanisms Applied to Education -- 4. Lifts and Nets Mechanisms Applied to Housing and Transportation -- 5. Lifts and Nets Mechanisms Applied to Health Care -- 6. The Social Cost on Economies...

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The middle-class New Deal : restoring upward mobility and the American dream

Dickerson, A. Mechele - 2026

"The US middle class was a product of state and federal policies enacted in the wake of the Great Depression. But since the 1980s, lawmakers have undermined what they once built, shredding the social safety net and instituting law that virtually guarantee downward mobility for all but the most...

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Wealth and ideology in Italy : the 1923 "quasi abolition" of inheritance tax and Fascists' "middle class politics"

Gabbuti, Giacomo - 2023

In summer 1923, pursuant to the 'full powers' granted him by the Parliament to balance the budget, Alberto De Stefani - appointed in October 1922 as Mussolini's Treasury Minister - announced the abolition of inheritance tax. The most iconic act of Fascist 'financial restauration' of 1922-25, the...

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From Middle Class to Poverty : The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Developing Countries

Viollaz, Mariana - 2023

This study combines pre-COVID-19 household surveys with 2020 macro data to simulate changes in household economic welfare and poverty rates through job losses, labor income changes, and non-labor (remittance) income changes during 2020 in Brazil, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, South Africa, and...

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Keynesian Fordism, Neoliberal Financialization and the Ambiguities of the Middle Class' Fortunes Between the Mid-Twentieth Century and Today : A Note

Elhefnawy, Nader - 2023

This note, referencing the author's prior discussion of the "Keynesian Fordist" and "Neoliberal Financialization" growth models, discusses the implications of each from a class and consumption standpoint, noting that where Keynesian Fordism was associated with a considerable growth in a...

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Of the Middle Class and the Quasi-Middle Class : A Note

Elhefnawy, Nader - 2023

This note, addressing the often ambiguous definition of "middle classness," offers the concept of "quasi-middle classness" to the end of helping clarify the issue. What distinguishes quasi-middle classness from middle classness in this analysis is that quasi-middle classness is more narrowly a...

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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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Mediating role of socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern changes of middle-class Muslims : an analysis using SEM

Razak, Syaparuddin; Abdullah, Irwan; Raking, Jumriani; … - 2023

This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of socio-religious behavior on consumption pattern changes of middle-class Muslims in the new normal era. In terms of methodology, this study is a correlational survey research. Research data were collected through questionnaires as many as 553...

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The middle class in Arab countries

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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Income and tax burden of the middle class in Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Dorn, Florian; Gstrein, David; Lay, Max - 2023

Middle class incomes in the EU are highest in Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Austria, and Sweden, and lowest in Eastern European countries. The middle class in Bulgaria and Romania are at the bottom of EU nominal incomes, but their living costs are just half of the EU average. When accounting for...

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Anchoring measurement of the middle-income class to subjective evaluation

Pittau, M. Grazia; Zelli, Roberto - 2023

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Despite crises, the stability of the euro is rooted in the middle class

Bayer, Christian; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Müller, Gernot J. - 2023

In the 24 years since its introduction, the euro has experienced a financial crisis, a government debt crisis, a global pandemic, and an energy crisis-and survived. Using a model focusing on households, this Weekly Report shows that the monetary union’s stability is rooted in the fact that the...

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