Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job - The effect of relative income on job mobility
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- Kristin Kronenberg & Tobias Kronenberg, 2011. "Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job - The effect of relative income on job mobility," ERSA conference papers ersa11p1445, European Regional Science Association.
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Keywords
Relative income; job mobility; happiness; social status;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2011-03-19 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-LAB-2011-03-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2011-03-19 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2011-03-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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