Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …

presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to …

This paper develops the mathematical foundations of comparison, referential, and relative (CRR) processes. The key …