Are Regional Differences in Utility Eliminated over Time?: Evidence from Germany
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Convergence; Hedonic Analysis; Happiness; Migration; Germany;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2008-01-05 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2008-01-05 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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