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Lobbyismus und Mittelstand: Zur Identifikation der Interessenverbände des Mittelstands in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krickhahn, Thomas - 1993
In diesem Arbeitspapier geht es um die Interessenorganisation des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Freien Berufe werden dabei als integraler Bestandteil des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands angesehen. Ausgehend von der Hypothese, daß die diese...
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Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
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Do consumers choose the right credit contracts?
Agarwal, Sumit; Chomsisengphet, Souphala; Liu, Chunlin; … - 2005
A number of studies have pointed to various mistakes that consumers might make in their consumption-saving and financial decisions. We utilize a unique market experiment conducted by a large U.S. bank to assess how systematic and costly such mistakes are in practice. The bank offered consumers a...
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Credit card debt and payment use
Sprenger, Charles; Stavins, Joanna - 2008
Approximately half of credit card holders in the United States regularly carry unpaid credit card debt. These so-called revolvers exhibit payment behavior that differs from that of those who repay their entire credit card balance every month. Previous literature has focused on the adoption of...
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Schrumpfende Mittelschicht: Anzeichen einer dauerhaften Polarisierung der verfügbaren Einkommen?
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 10, pp. 101-108
der Bevölkerungsanteil an den Rändern der Einkommensverteilung, wobei in der Mittelschicht die Abwärtsmobilität stärker …
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Polarisierung der Einkommen: die Mittelschicht verliert
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin; Häußermann, Hartmut - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 24, pp. 2-8
ungerecht empfunden, sondern er schürt auch die Verunsicherung der Mittelschicht. Im Krisenjahr 2009 nahm zwar der Anteil der …
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Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - 2011
This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of...
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Middle Class Size in the Past, Present, and Future: A Description of Trends in Asia
Chun, Natalie - 2010
This paper describes the size of the middle class in developing Asia across countries and over time. Based on an absolute measure of the middle class of $2-$20 (2005 purchasing power parity United States dollars), it finds that between 1990 and 2008, the size of the middle class in developing...
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Ungleiche Mittelschichten: Über Unterschiede im Immobilienvermögen und im Erbe innerhalb der Mitte Deutschlands
Korom, Philipp - 2017
Erstmals in der Geschichte hat die Mittelschicht einen bedeutsamen Anteil des privaten Vermögens erworben. Doch sind … geringer Verbreitungsgrad von Immobilienbesitz und Erbe in der unteren Mittelschicht (60 bis 80 Prozent des Medianeinkommens … Besitz einer selbst genutzten Immobilie von der oberen Mittelschicht (< 250 über des Medianeinkommens). Das relevante …
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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class
Torche, Florencia; Lopez-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation and measurement error than standard...
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