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dc.contributor.authorScheicher, Christophen
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-14T12:29:15Z-
dc.date.available2011-04-14T12:29:15Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/44945-
dc.description.abstractThe decline of the middle class has been investigated as a principal aspect of social polarization (Wolfson 1994, 1997). Wang and Tsui 2000 have characterized a class of polarization measures by postulates on normalization, increasing spread and increasing bipolarity. The present paper generalizes this class of measures. It defines polarization by aggregating measures of poverty and of affluence, focussing on incomes outside a middle class interval. The approach is applied to German data on income distribution.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Cologne, Seminar of Economic and Social Statistics |cCologneen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDiscussion Papers in Statistics and Econometrics |x3/08en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.jelD63en
dc.subject.jelI32en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keyworddecline of middle classen
dc.subject.keywordincome distributionen
dc.subject.keywordincome richnessen
dc.titleMeasuring polarization via poverty and affluence-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn65625467Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:ucdpse:308en

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