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Les classes moyennes en Europe et en France au sortir de la crise

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Within European countries, France belongs to a group of countries (also including Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain) where the share of the middle class in total population stands at a relatively high level. Besides that share appears stable over the last 10 years (as in Belgium and the Netherlands, and contrary to Germany or Sweden where it has been decreasing). Such middle-class resilience during the crisis, and more generally from 1996 to 2001, can be related to three main trends: the stability of the middle-class share within total population, stable inequalities within the middle-class, and a maintained growth in income. However, the French middle-class has been hit by labour market changes. First, the share of managers and professionals has increased in the middle-class, especially in the middle-class higher income group, making that group closer to the higher income class. Second, the development of flexible forms of employment (temporary employment, part-time and involuntary part-time) has been concentrating on middle-class lower income group -and even more on the lower income class. Thus heterogeneity within the middle-class seems to have increased in France despite its overall stability

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  • Pierre Courtioux & Christine Erhel & Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, 2017. "Les classes moyennes en Europe et en France au sortir de la crise," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 17029, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
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    middle-class; income; France; European Union;
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    • D3 - Microeconomics - - Distribution
    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs

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