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Stuck in the tunnel: is globalization muddling the middle class?

Birdsall, Nancy; Graham, Carol; & Pettinato, Stefano. (2000). Stuck in the tunnel: is globalization muddling the middle class? Brookings Institution Center Working Paper No. 14.

Birdsall, Nancy; Graham, Carol; & Pettinato, Stefano. (2000). Stuck in the tunnel: is globalization muddling the middle class? Brookings Institution Center Working Paper No. 14.

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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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Brookings Institution Center Working Paper No. 14


Birdsall, Nancy
Graham, Carol
Pettinato, Stefano



2000




14







14

10.2139/ssrn.277162



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