On the Measurement of Relative, Absolute and Intermediate Pro-middle Class Growth
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- Osnat Peled & Jacques Silber, 2019. "On the measurement of relative, absolute and intermediate pro-middle class growth," Working Papers 503, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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Keywords
Israel; intermediate inequality; polarization; pro-middle class growth; welfare policy; labor force participation; D31; D63; I31; O47; O53;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
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