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 …

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. …

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions …

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 …

complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …