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population at risk of falling into poverty. We suggest that lines developed in this way can also be applied for the purpose of … panel data, drawing on data from the United States and Vietnam. Importantly, given the relative scarcity of panel datasets …, we show further that our method can be applied to synthetic panel datasets. We demonstrate this by means of an …
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011136
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra … vulnerable to falling into poverty. In both countries, labour market resources (education and occupational status of the head … substantially more vulnerable to falling into poverty and have little chance of advancing to upper classes. …
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Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra … vulnerable to falling into poverty. In both countries, labour market resources (education and occupational status of the head … substantially more vulnerable to falling into poverty and have little chance of advancing to upper classes. -- intra …
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Using panel data-sets from Mexico and Chile for the first years of the 21st century, the authors examine the … move to higher levels of well-being but is also vulnerable to falling into poverty. In both countries, labour … workers from shocks. Rural middle-class households are substantially more vulnerable to falling into poverty and have little …
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vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income … - associated with a low probability of falling into poverty - which could define the lower bound of the middle class. The paper … looks at absolute thresholds, challenging the view that people above the poverty line are actually part of the middle class …
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vulnerability to poverty. Following this approach the paper exploits panel data to determine the amount of comparable income … -- associated with a low probability of falling into poverty -- which could define the lower bound of the middle class. The paper … looks at absolute thresholds, challenging the view that people above the poverty line are actually part of the middle class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975568