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"Inequality is the root of social evil," or maybe not? : two stories about inequality and public policy

Corak, Miles - 2017

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...

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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we...

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Catching up with the West : Chinese pathways to the global middle class

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna; Sicular, Terry - 2019

We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. Defining the global middle class as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate...

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On determinants of poverty and inequality in Bangladesh

Islam, Md. Deen; Sayeed, Jamil; Hossain, Md. Nazmul - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 21 (2017) 4/6, pp. 352-371

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Benign inequality : frames of poverty and social class inequality in children's movies

Streib, Jessi; Ayala, Miryea; Wixted, Colleen - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 21 (2017) 1/3, pp. 1-19

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The golden middle class neighborhood : trends in residential segregation and consequences for offspring outcomes

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2018

Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A neighborhood's status is measured annually by its prime age inhabitants' earnings ranks within larger...

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Tackling the last hurdles of poverty entrenchment : an investigation of poverty dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06-2016/17

Dang, Hai-Anh; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but … this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana …-sectional data. While we find considerable conditional chronic (extreme) poverty rates hovering around 50-60 percent, there is more …

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

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2021

poverty and affluence poles and regimes, for fulltime selfemployed, employees and subsequently for further socio …

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Ideas, narratives and representations of poverty amongst the urban middle class in India

Vinaya, Harshada - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 24 (2020) 2, pp. 113-129

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