Clases medias y éxito económico en ALC
ID-03-2010

"Down and Out or Up and In? In Search of Latin America’s Elusive Middle Class"
Guillermo Cruces, Luis Felipe López-Calva y Diego Battiston

This paper discusses the existing empirical implementations of the concept of middle class in the applied literature, and derives a definition based on sound principles from distributional analysis.

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ID-02-2010

"Bigger… but Stronger? The Middle Class in Chile and Mexico in the Last Decade"
Dagmar Hertova, Luis Felipe López-Calva y Eduardo Ortiz Juárez

The analysis of the middle class emerges as a relevant issue given the strong influence that this social group has on societies and also on the economic performance. The aim of this document is to empirically contrast different ways of measuring the middle class, from purely statistical approaches to context-relative and absolute-standard measures, and to vulnerability analysis.

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