López-Calva, Luis; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 1, pp. 23-47
Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they …-determined sociological characteristics can be found empirically. This paper aims at proposing a view of the middle class based on … -associated with a low probability of falling into poverty— which could define the lower bound of the middle class. It looks at …