Rapid middle-income growth over the past decades has led to increasing public interest in
the developing world's “new middle classes”. However, these transformations have received …

En este documento se abordan las características y la vulnerabilidad de las clases medias
en Chile, temática que ha cobrado gran relevancia en el marco de la doble crisis …

In light of the economic, political and social significance of the middle class for South Africa's
emerging democracy, we critically examine contrasting conceptualisations of social class …

This paper studies how social capital is divided across classes in Chile, one of the most
unequal countries in the world. We analyse the extent to which upper-, middle-, and lower …

The world is eyeing emerging markets where increasing numbers of consumers are entering
into a new segment called the middle class. In emerging markets, this new segment of the …

The term “middle class” is increasingly used to qualify the mass of people in developing
countries who are neither poor nor rich and share consumption patterns historically …

Long-standing literature argues that social capital is closely implicated in labour market
outcomes. However, this hypothesis has yet to be tested in Latin America, the most unequal …

Se estudian las desigualdades entre territorios subnacionales según clases sociales en
Chile, discutiendo si existe un único proceso de mesocratización. Para esto se analiza el …

This study examines how perceptions of residential reputation and stigma vary according to
differences in social class and spatial structures. The focus of our inquiry is the city of …

This paper joins the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, analysing its
structure and characteristics. The paper investigates inter-class mobility potential and its …