This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for …

European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on … importance of income vulnerability for the middle class is on a par with (or even greater than) economic factors such as severe … the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …

as various segments of the income distribution, based on the 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Survey. We follow the … typology of the low, middle and high income classes proposed in previous research reports, and simulate the likely effects of … contractions in per capita income on poverty and the entire income distribution amid the coronavirus pandemic. In estimating the …

of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income …

people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …