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The effect of international sanctions on the size of the middle class in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibi, Nader - 2024
This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563835
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Die Entwicklung der Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland
Kucsera, Dénes; Lorenz, Hanno; Nagl, Wolfgang - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 10, pp. 789-794
Wir untersuchen die Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf den Veränderungen der … vergangenen 20 Jahre liegt. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Mittelschicht in Deutschland und Österreich in ihrer Zusammensetzung … als in Deutschland, den Großteil der Bevölkerung umfasst. Anschließend analysieren wir die Bedeutung der Mittelschicht für …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468377
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319837
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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class
Torche, Florencia; López-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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667915
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The middle muddle : conceptualizing and measuring the global middle class
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
Interest in the emergence of a global middle class has resulted in a number of attempts to identify and enumerate who belongs to it . Current research provides wildly different estimates about the size and evolution of the global middle class because of a lack of consensus on appropriate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409503
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The Middle Muddle : Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class
Jayadev, Arjun - 2015
Interest in the emergence of a global middle class has resulted in a number of attempts to identify and enumerate who belongs to it. Current research provides wildly different estimates about the size and evolution of the global middle class because of a lack of consensus on appropriate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011418
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Stability and Vulnerability of the Latin American Middle Class
López-Calva, Luis Felipe - 2014
Using panel data-sets from Mexico and Chile for the first years of the 21st century, the authors examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. The middle class is defined by means of a latent index of economic well-being that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059772
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A Vulnerability Approach to the Definition of the Middle Class
López-Calva, Luis Felipe - 2014
Measurement of the middle class has recently come to the center of policy debate in middle-income countries as they search for the potential engines of growth and good governance. This debate assumes, first, that there is a meaningful definition of class, and second, that the thresholds which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059781
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The Rise of the Middle Class in the People’s Republic of China
Yuan, Zhang - 2011
Using $2–$20 (purchasing power parity) per capita daily income as the definition of middle class, majority of households in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have become middle class by 2007, which is especially impressive given that around 40% of households were still considered poor in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127301
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Die Entwicklung der Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland
Kucsera, Dénes; Lorenz, Hanno; Nagl, Wolfgang - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 102 (2022) 10, pp. 789-794
Wir untersuchen die Mittelschicht in Österreich und Deutschland, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf den Veränderungen der … vergangenen 20 Jahre liegt. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich die Mittelschicht in Deutschland und Österreich in ihrer Zusammensetzung … als in Deutschland, den Großteil der Bevölkerung umfasst. Anschließend analysieren wir die Bedeutung der Mittelschicht für …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415740