European countries. Using the special module of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions micro-data on … 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 …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find …This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their …

relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative …Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on … whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their …