both the share of the total population belonging to the middle class, and also their share in total income. Here … illustration, samples of individual earnings drawn from Canadian census data are used to test various hypotheses about the middle-class …

This paper proposes a stylised model to derive the effect of a sizeable middle class on average educational outcomes …. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes … larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by …

The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social … class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding … clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a structured overview of a wide array of definitions of the middle class …

In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state …. We find that the commerce and services sectors have the biggest impact on the size of the middle class in Bolivia and …

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 been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …

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 been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …

period where wealth became a secondary resource for a middle-class lifestyle afforded by education and labor income for both …

macroeconomic dynamics in these economies. These changes triggered the growth of the middle class that became an essential factor of … estimating their role in the growth of the middle class and the consequent attractiveness of these two important emerging markets … selected demographic and macroeconomic indicators related to the growth of the middle class. We established that India fell …