vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income … - associated with a low probability of falling into poverty - which could define the lower bound of the middle class. The paper … looks at absolute thresholds, challenging the view that people above the poverty line are actually part of the middle class …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …

paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … by proposing vulnerability lines that can be straightforwardly estimated with panel or cross-sectional household survey … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels …