The new middle class in emerging markets: How values and demographics influence discretionary consumption
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DOI: 10.1002/tie.21980
Abstract: The rise of new middle‐class consumers in rapidly transforming emerging markets has attracted the attention of Western business executives. What they know about this growing segment of customers will determine whether they succeed or fail… read more here.
Keywords: new middle; class emerging; middle class; discretionary consumption ... See more keywords
The role of preferences for pro-environmental behaviour among urban middle class households in Peru
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106850
Abstract: Abstract Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is known to reflect people's social preferences, time preferences and risk preferences. Previous research has tended to consider these in isolation, which means they may proxy for omitted ones, leading to… read more here.
Keywords: middle class; preferences matter; behaviour; environmental behaviour ... See more keywords
Illicit drugs and the decline of the middle class
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.01.021
Abstract: Abstract Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that illicit consumption of opioids increases in association with socio-economic deprivation of the middle-class. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we set up a task-based labor market model with… read more here.
Keywords: middle class; illicit drugs; socio economic; class ... See more keywords
Variation and change of middle-class /r/ in Standard Scottish English
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DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2021.103059
Abstract: Abstract The phoneme /r/ is particularly variable in Scottish English, and the phonetic realisation appears to be related to a number of linguistic and sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative importance of these factors, particularly for… read more here.
Keywords: variation change; middle class; change middle; scottish english ... See more keywords
Why do middle-class couples of European descent adopt children from Africa and Asia? Some Support for the Differential K Model
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.008
Abstract: Patterns of adoption behaviour are starkly asymmetric across populations. To better understand this phenomenon we conducted a systematic review of transracial adoption and adoption in general. We f ... read more here.
Keywords: european descent; middle class; adopt children; class couples ... See more keywords
The bourgeoisification of the Green-Line: The new Israeli middle-class and the Suburban Settlement
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DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102223
Abstract: Abstract This paper focuses on Kochav-Yair and Oranit, two localities that exemplify the Israeli Suburban Settlement phenomenon. With the first being developed by a selective group of families and the latter by a single private… read more here.
Keywords: suburban settlement; green line; settlement; middle class ... See more keywords
Income polarization in the USA: What happened to the middle class in the last few decades?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2019.12.003
Abstract: Abstract With increasing income inequality in the US over the last few decades, what has happened to the middle class? The aggregate inequality indexes don't answer this question. We employ Relative Distribution tools and use… read more here.
Keywords: middle class; class; happened middle; last decades ... See more keywords
Abundance – A new window on how disruptive innovation occurs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.008
Abstract: The economic philosophy of abundance has provided a new portal to view disruptive innovation. After decades of the world's middle class shrinking and the poor becoming poorer the abundance concept has created an interest in… read more here.
Keywords: disruptive innovation; middle class; innovation; new window ... See more keywords
From Miracle to Mirage: The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960–2015. By Myungji Yang. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. 183 pp. $ 45.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jea.2019.3
Abstract: In From Miracle to Mirage, Myungji Yang challenges one of the prevalent narratives of modern Korea—that of South Korea’s spectacular economic growth. In this timely study, Yang seeks to explain the apparent contradiction of middle-class… read more here.
Keywords: middle class; class; miracle mirage; myungji yang ... See more keywords
Doing being middle-class in the global South: comparative perspectives and conceptual challenges
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DOI: 10.1017/s0001972020000029
Abstract: Abstract Like many key terms in history and the social sciences, ‘middle class’ is at once a category ‘of social and political analysis’ and a category ‘of social and political practice’, in Rogers Brubaker and… read more here.
Keywords: south comparative; class global; middle class; class ... See more keywords
Structures, feelings and savoir faire: Ghana's middle classes in the making
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DOI: 10.1017/s0001972020000030
Abstract: Abstract The concept of ‘middle class’ in African societies has been recognized recently but at the same time it resists clear-cut definition. Rather than seeking clearer classification, I propose to embrace its contested nature as… read more here.
Keywords: structures feelings; middle class; faire ghana; class ... See more keywords