López-Calva, Luis; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 1, pp. 23-47
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. It looks at … absolute thresholds, challenging the view that people just above the poverty line are actually part of the middle class. In an …