Pleninger, Regina; de Haan, Jakob; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2019
This paper studies the effects of globalisation on the income share of the middle class. Our findings suggest that … globalisation, proxied by the KOF Economic Globalisation Index, reduces the income share of the middle class. The income share of … the poorest 20% also drops due to globalisation, while that of the richest 20% increases. When we distinguish between de …