Measuring the Middle Class in Africa - Income Versus Assets Approach

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F20%3A73605214" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/20:73605214 - isvavai.cz</a>

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RIV/26482789:_____/20:N0000036

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002039720916087" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002039720916087</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039720916087" target="_blank" >10.1177/0002039720916087</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Measuring the Middle Class in Africa - Income Versus Assets Approach

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Traditionally, economists measure middle class from the income perspective. Considering quality of data for many African countries, relying solely on income may, unfortunately, lead to an incorrect picture. This article compares and analyses the African middle class measured by income and by ownership of assets. Results indicate that middle class sizes differ significantly in some countries, while in others they are more or less the same. Regression analyses performed to investigate potential correlates of the African income and assets middle class sizes indicate that the African assets middle class size is positively associated with income per capita and negatively with assets inequality. To a lesser extent, it is positively affected by education and negatively by ethnic fractionalisation. The African income middle class size depends positively on income per capita and education, while negatively on income inequality.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Measuring the Middle Class in Africa - Income Versus Assets Approach

Popis výsledku anglicky

Traditionally, economists measure middle class from the income perspective. Considering quality of data for many African countries, relying solely on income may, unfortunately, lead to an incorrect picture. This article compares and analyses the African middle class measured by income and by ownership of assets. Results indicate that middle class sizes differ significantly in some countries, while in others they are more or less the same. Regression analyses performed to investigate potential correlates of the African income and assets middle class sizes indicate that the African assets middle class size is positively associated with income per capita and negatively with assets inequality. To a lesser extent, it is positively affected by education and negatively by ethnic fractionalisation. The African income middle class size depends positively on income per capita and education, while negatively on income inequality.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Africa Spectrum

ISSN

0002-0397

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

55

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

30

Strana od-do

3-32

Kód UT WoS článku

000542089600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85084513329