Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … one dimension: income. Upcoming multidimensional poverty measures have challenged this established assumption, claiming … that the correlation between the various dimensions of poverty is in fact not strong enough for income to serve as a proxy …

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we … take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of … German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively …

income and parental education) remain good predictors of well-being over 50 years later. In terms of the proximal covariates …