People are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
Free school meals are a standard poverty indicator - used by the inspectorate, Ofsted, to judge how well one school is doing compared with others "in similar circumstances".
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Compared with what we were doing musically, they were brilliant.
For de Waal, these experiments complement research showing that people are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
In both cases, the experiments would be tiny compared with what people are already doing.
Jobs, as an input to production, by definition add to the cost of whatever the final good or service in question is, compared to doing the same with fewer or no employees.
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Overall, the UK is not doing too badly compared with neighbouring countries, the authors say.
True, the practice is illegal in much of the world, but the penalties for doing it are light compared with, say, dealing in illicit drugs.
By contrast, she has compared the typical person going bust in 1997 with those doing so earlier in the past two decades.
Mr Justice Mitting freely admits that the tribunal is "rather odd" when compared with the way other British courts operate - but in doing so, he is not conceding that its decision-making is flawed.
Nothing wrong with parents complaining if their school is doing badly compared to others within the same group.
The study did not compare women who worked with those who did not work - it only compared women doing different sorts of work.
Households are doing their bit, saving 9.7% of their disposable income compared with less than zero in 2004.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, calculates that, although the city has not been as successful at creating work as the rest of California, it is doing better than most other cities: New York has 10% unemployment, compared with Los Angeles's 7%, and is losing manufacturing jobs while Los Angeles creates them.
A. Traditionally, business in China is bound by handshakes and verbal agreements. (In the U.S., however, ) Chinese companies must provide written documentation of issues in order to comply with the law, which Chinese businessmen may find too rigid compared to their own traditional and less formal methods of doing business.
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