2013
DOI: 10.1353/eco.2013.a523452
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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Abstract: The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons between objective and subjective definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 W orld Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure. Mismatches between the objective and the subjective classification of social class are the la… Show more

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