Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class

The main motivation of this paper is to discuss the existing empirical implementations of the middle class in the applied literature and to derive a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis. The document also provides comparative results on the extent and evolution of middle...

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Autores principales: Cruces, Guillermo Antonio, López Calva, Luis Felipe, Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2009
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Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169604
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1696042024-09-04T20:08:30Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169604 Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class Cruces, Guillermo Antonio López Calva, Luis Felipe Battistón, Diego Ezequiel 2009-11 2009 2024-09-04T15:06:34Z en Ciencias Económicas middle class distribution polarization Latin America The main motivation of this paper is to discuss the existing empirical implementations of the middle class in the applied literature and to derive a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis. The document also provides comparative results on the extent and evolution of middle classes from a variety of existing definitions since the early 1990s for six Latin American countries. To avoid some of the arbitrariness of traditional measures, we propose an endogenous definition based on the polarization literature. Other socioeconomic features of the middle classes in the region according to different definitions are described and discussed. The results are also presented for the lower and upper classes. El principal objetivo es discutir una serie de medidas de clase media implementadas en la literatura empírica y proponer una definición acorde a los principios del análisis distributivo. El documento provee resultados comparativos sobre el tamaño y evolución de la clase media desde principio de los 90's para seis países latinoamericanos a partir de varias definiciones existentes. Para evitar cierta arbitrariedad de las medidas tradicionales, proponemos una definición basada en la literatura de polarización. Se documentan también otras características socioeconómicas de la clase media. Los resultados se presentan también para la clase alta y la clase baja de cada definición. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
middle class
distribution
polarization
Latin America
description The main motivation of this paper is to discuss the existing empirical implementations of the middle class in the applied literature and to derive a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis. The document also provides comparative results on the extent and evolution of middle classes from a variety of existing definitions since the early 1990s for six Latin American countries. To avoid some of the arbitrariness of traditional measures, we propose an endogenous definition based on the polarization literature. Other socioeconomic features of the middle classes in the region according to different definitions are described and discussed. The results are also presented for the lower and upper classes.
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Objeto de conferencia
author Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
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López Calva, Luis Felipe
Battistón, Diego Ezequiel
author_sort Cruces, Guillermo Antonio
title Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_short Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_full Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_fullStr Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
title_full_unstemmed Down and out or up and in?: in search of Latin America's elusive middle class
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