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Income Mobility and the Middle Class

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  • Richard Burkhauser

    (American Enterprise Institute)

Abstract

Did the decline in the proportion of household with middle-class incomes take place because the households became richer or because the households became impoverished?

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  • Richard Burkhauser, 1996. "Income Mobility and the Middle Class," Books, American Enterprise Institute, number 650825, September.
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    1. Kira Boerner & Silke Uebelmesser, 2007. "Migration and the welfare state: The economic power of the non-voter?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 14(1), pages 93-111, February.
    2. Steven Pressman, 2006. "The Decline of the Middle Class: An International Perspective," LIS Working papers 280, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    3. Nico A. Hansen & Anke S. Kessler, 2001. "The Political Geography of Tax H(e)avens and Tax Hells," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(4), pages 1103-1115, September.
    4. 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.
    5. Delorme, Francois & Godbout, Luc, 2017. "S’instruire, c’est s’enrichir : Le niveau de scolarité joue-t-il un rôle dans l’accès à la classe moyenne au Québec? [To learn is to enrich oneself: Does the level of education play a role in the a," MPRA Paper 85054, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Delorme, Francois & St-Cerny, Suzie, 2014. "La classe moyenne au Québec s’érode-t-elle vraiment : Contour et évolution [Is Quebec's Middle Class Really Shrinking : Overview and Evolution]," MPRA Paper 85051, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Richard V. Burkhauser & Kenneth A. Couch & Andrew Houtenville & Ludmila Rovba, 2003. "Income Inequality in the 1990s: Re-forging a Lost Relationship," Journal of Income Distribution, Ad libros publications inc., vol. 12(3-4), pages 2-2, September.
    8. Joseph Eisenhauer, 2008. "An Economic Definition of the Middle Class," Forum for Social Economics, Springer;The Association for Social Economics, vol. 37(2), pages 103-113, August.
    9. Steven Pressman, 2007. "The Decline of the Middle Class: An International Perspective," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 181-200, March.
    10. Burkhauser, Richard V. & Amy Crews Cutts & Mary C. Daly & Stephen P. Jenkins, 1999. "Testing the Significance of Income Distribution Changes over the 1980s Business Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(3), pages 253-272, May-June.
    11. C�line Bonnefond & Matthieu Cl�ment & Fran�ois Combarnous, 2015. "In search of the elusive Chinese urban middle class: an exploratory analysis," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 41-59, March.
    12. Hansen, Nico A. & Kessler, Anke S., 2001. "(Non-)Existence of Equilibria in Multicommunity Models," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(3), pages 418-435, November.
    13. Joseph Eisenhauer, 2008. "An Economic Definition of the Middle Class," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(2), pages 103-113, January.
    14. Joon-Woo Nahm, 2008. "Shrinking Middle Class and Changing Income Distribution of Korea: 1995-2005," Korean Economic Review, Korean Economic Association, vol. 24, pages 345-365.

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    Keywords

    Inequality; Middle class; income; Income distribution; AEI Press; AEI Archive;
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    • A - General Economics and Teaching

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