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easat-10916	GJACI, Blerina; KRISTO, Suela	An assessment of middle-class stability through the determinants of income polarization: Evidence from a multinational panel study	2025	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7486	405	45	Abstract: This paper explores the factors influencing income polarization, which serves as a proxy indicator for assessing the stability of the middle class in South-East and Central-East European countries. The study employs an unbalanced panel dataset covering 16 countries over the period 1996– 2022 to examine how key economic and social factors, including GDP per capita, remittances, unemployment, urbanization rate, tertiary education enrollment, and social protection expenditures, affect income polarization.	cache/easat-10916.pdf	txt/easat-10916.txt