This paper evaluates the importance of middle class vulnerability to poverty for subjective well-being (happiness) in …) is more relevant for individual happiness of middle class members. The aggregate income vulnerability of the middle class … well-being and national aggregates from the World Happiness Report, the vulnerability indicator used is shown to be …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using … comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries. We find that both a continuous measure of income and categorical … measures of income-based class are robustly associated with values. Both income and class tend to display a similar association …

der Bevölkerungsanteil an den Rändern der Einkommensverteilung, wobei in der Mittelschicht die Abwärtsmobilität stärker …Die Schicht der Bezieher mittlerer Einkommen ist in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich geschrumpft. Ihr …

as income and consumption. Therefore, subjective well-being provides additional useful information to study human well …-being and, in consequence, poverty. Three reasons for the existence of a weak relationship are studied: First, the fact that a … heterogeneity in purposes of life. The understanding and abatement of poverty would be better served by a concept of human well …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz …