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Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class?

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Birdsall, N.
Graham, C.
Pettinato, S.
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Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle-the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)-and their income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our results point to genuine distributional stress for middle-income households, as well as public perceptions of such stress.

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Paper provided by Brookings Institution - Working Papers in its series Papers with number 14.

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Length: 36 pages
Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: INCOME ; MIDDLE CLASS ; GLOBALIZATION;

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D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
H80 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - General

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