The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
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- Holger Stichnoth, 2010. "The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 264, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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Keywords
reference standard; social comparison; immigration; Germany;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MIG-2009-09-05 (Economics of Human Migration)
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