Migrant's Pursuit of Happiness: The Impact of Adaption, Social Comparison and Relative Deprivation; Evidence from a 'Natural' Experiment
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Keywords
Migration; subjective well-being; happiness; social comparison; adaptation; relative deprivation; German panel data; panel regression models; natural experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2012-06-05 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-MIG-2012-06-05 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-TRA-2012-06-05 (Transition Economics)
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