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An Economic Definition of the Middle Class

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  • Joseph Eisenhauer

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    Article provided by Springer in its journal Forum for Social Economics.

    Volume (Year): 37 (2008)
    Issue (Month): 2 (August)
    Pages: 103-113

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    Handle: RePEc:spr:fosoec:v:37:y:2008:i:2:p:103-113
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    Keywords: Middle class; Wealthy; Potential non-labor income; D31; I31; J11; N32;

    Find related papers by JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
    • N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-

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    1. Mary Daly, 1997. "The "shrinking" middle class?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue mar7.
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    Cited by:

    1. Eisenhauer, Joseph G., 2011. "The rich, the poor, and the middle class: Thresholds and intensity indices," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(4), pages 294-304, December.
    2. Beach, Charles M., 2014. "What Has Happened to Middle-Class Earnings? Distributional Shifts in Earnings in Canada, 1970-2005," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2014-13, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 26 Mar 2014.

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