Who Belongs to the Middle Income Class in Europe? The Role of Gender-Specific Occupational Characteristics in Multi-Level Analyses for 17 European Countries

Autor(en)

Nina-Sophie Fritsch, Bernd Liedl

Abstrakt

For many years scholars and politicians discuss the economic importance of the middle income class. Our article contributes to broaden the present state of research by not only examining the structure of the middle class whilst focusing on individual attributes, but by especially taking the role of gender-specific occupational characteristics and country-specific conditions into account. Based on the EU-SILC data 2020 for 17 countries, we analyze which factors affect the structure of the middle income class on the individual, on the occupational and country level. Our findings show that occupational attributes (e.g. part-time rate) prove to be highly relevant in this realm. Moreover, significant gender differences can be observed: women who work in an occupation which is mainly performed by women bear a higher risk of belonging to the lower income class as compared to men.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Soziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU), Universität Potsdam

Journal

International Journal of Sociology

Band

53

Seiten

59-82

Anzahl der Seiten

24

ISSN

0020-7659

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2022.2151765

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504003 Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung, 504014 Gender Studies, 504007 Empirische Sozialforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0fb375e8-9084-4423-aa3c-0e4e2db7b373