A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class
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- Luis López-Calva & Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, 2014. "A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 12(1), pages 23-47, March.
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Keywords
Rural Poverty Reduction; Inequality; Regional Economic Development; Urban Partnerships&Poverty; Services&Transfers to Poor;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2011-12-13 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2011-12-13 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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