-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of … the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US dollars a day in purchasing power …

interpersonal income comparisons, and thereby tends to increases the desire for pro-social legislation, a position he supports by … growth rate and negatively related to the change in income inequality. We conclude by discussing the implications of these …

This paper examines whether countries with higher income have less corruption. Earlier studies, utilizing pure cross …-section regressions, establish a strong association between income and corruption but do not consider factors (presumably, long … for such factors, we show that the statistical association between income and corruption disappears. …

class which is based on sound principles of distributional analysis and derived from income polarization measures. The …

self-reported income. It focuses on the middle class because persons of all income levels show a strong bias towards … just with income, but with all forms of wealth, be it personal capabilities, interpersonal relations, financial and …

Some approaches to measuring the middle class are based on an arbitrary definition such as income quartiles or the … during the 1994-2004 and 2004-2010 periods. During the first period, characterized by increasing income inequality, the … middle class declines and income polarization increases. In the second period, which includes the recovery from the 2002 …