{"id":4008,"date":"2020-11-17T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it?p=4008"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T10:30:48","slug":"pubblicato-il-nuovo-wp-lps-how-to-measure-the-middle-class-approaches-from-economics-di-chiara-ricci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/?p=4008","title":{"rendered":"Pubblicato il nuovo WP LPS: How to measure the middle class: approaches from economics (di Chiara Ricci)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1925 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Schermata-2018-12-17-alle-12.13.48-300x114.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" \/>Si segnala che \u00e8 stato pubblicato il <strong>nuovo working paper LPS<\/strong> (sotto-collana della serie di Working Paper del DAStU):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Working-Papers-n.-042020-LPS.11-.pdf\"><strong>How to measure the middle class: approaches\u00a0from economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;articolo \u00e8 scritto da <strong>Chiara Ricci<\/strong> ed \u00e8 stato prodotto nell\u2019ambito del progetto <strong>Rising Inequality and the Social\u00a0Insecurity of the Middle Class: Measures, Drivers, Policies (RISING)<\/strong>, finanziato dal MIUR su bando\u00a0<strong>PRIN 2017<\/strong>. Il progetto vede la partecipazione del Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani del <strong>Poltecnico<\/strong> (coordinatore del progetto) e delle\u00a0Universit\u00e0 di <strong>Trento<\/strong> (Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale), <strong>Milano<\/strong> \u00a0(Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e Politiche) e <strong>Roma\u00a0\u201cLa Sapienza\u201d<\/strong> (Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto).<\/p>\n<p>Il pezzo si propone di fornire una<strong> rassegna della letteratura sui diversi approcci adottati in economia per esplorare la dimensione e l&#8217;evoluzione della classe media<\/strong> in\u00a0contesti eterogenei. Si prendono in considerazione le principali definizioni di classe media basate sul reddito esaminandone la logica ed illustrandone le\u00a0<strong>implicazioni nell&#8217;analisi empirica<\/strong> e nel dibattito pubblico.<\/p>\n<p>Di seguito l&#8217;abstract completo dell&#8217;articolo<\/p>\n<p><em>The middle class has always been considered important especially for democracy and economic\u00a0growth but the concept of middle class is differently defined and measured by social researchers.\u00a0Even though the sociological literature analyses the evolution of social classes taking into account\u00a0multiple dimensions, most economic studies consider classes focusing solely on income stratification\u00a0and, in general, categorise as the \u201cmiddle class\u201d the middle-income groups in absolute or relative\u00a0terms. The consequences of this practice are that it is difficult to identify stable criteria to define and\u00a0operationalise the theoretical concept of the \u201cmiddle class\u201d, and empirical results depend on the way\u00a0that group is defined. Other approaches, drawn from the studies of polarization, respond to the need\u00a0for less arbitrary analysis of the middle class. This paper aims to provide a literature review of the\u00a0different approaches in economics to explore the dimension and the evolution of the middle class in\u00a0heterogeneous contexts, examining the rationale for the various definitions and illustrating their\u00a0implications in the empirical analysis and the public debate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Il paper \u00e8 scaricabile al seguente <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Working-Papers-n.-042020-LPS.11-.pdf\">link<\/a>: https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Working-Papers-n.-042020-LPS.11-.pdf<\/p>\n<p>Questo workng paper \u00e8 il primo di una serie di articoli prodotti nella prima fase del PRIN RISINIG con lo scopo di fare il punto sui principali concetti affrontati dal progetto (classe media ed insicurezza). Seguiranno working papers sulle principali definizioni di classe medie basate sull&#8217;occupazione svolta, sugli approcci culturalisti allo studio del ceto medio ed, infine, una rassegna della letteratura sulla definizione di insicurezza economica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Si segnala che \u00e8 stato pubblicato il nuovo working paper LPS (sotto-collana della serie di Working Paper del DAStU): How to measure the middle class: approaches\u00a0from economics L&#8217;articolo \u00e8 scritto da Chiara Ricci ed \u00e8 stato prodotto nell\u2019ambito del progetto Rising Inequality and the Social\u00a0Insecurity of the Middle Class: Measures, Drivers, Policies (RISING), finanziato dal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,325,297,327],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-dal-laboratorio","tag-income","tag-middle-class","tag-prin","tag-rising"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lps.polimi.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}