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 …

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …

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

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

with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …