This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in … importance of income vulnerability for the middle class is on a par with (or even greater than) economic factors such as severe … the lower income bound of the middle class (75% of the national median income) and not the poverty line (60% of the median …

the relevance attributed to it by Fascists before the 1924 election, qualify the episode as an early case of 'middle-class …

Middle class incomes in the EU are highest in Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Austria, and Sweden, and lowest in Eastern … European countries. The middle class in Bulgaria and Romania are at the bottom of EU nominal incomes, but their living costs … are just half of the EU average. When accounting for differences in purchasing power in the EU, the middle class in …

union’s stability is rooted in the fact that the middle class neither gains nor loses significantly relative to an …

, economic growth, religion, and the socio-political role of the middle-class people that have taken place in the society and … the emergence and development of a new middle class in the country. In the past, it has been said theoretically and in the … light of the experience of different countries that economic growth and development of the middle class simultaneously …

be a broader concept (a middle class person, for example, expected to enjoy a measure of security in their socioeconomic … position, and opportunity to "rise," that someone merely engaged in material consumption at a "middle class" level does not …-war boom was not a generalization of middle classness, but of quasi-middle classness, and that the "decline of the middle class …