Did the middle class shrink during the 1980s?

DOI10.1016/0165-1765(95)00698-FzbMath1058.91566OpenAlexW1974994540MaRDI QIDQ1352241

Stephen P. Jenkins

Publication date: 27 February 1997

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(95)00698-f

zbMATH Keywords

Income distributionInequalityKernel density estimationPolarisationShrinking middle class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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