This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our …

-looking aspirations -- people value their consumption relative to the conditional mean of those above them in the distribution. Their … through the aspirations gap, motivates people to work and save more. Economic outcomes improve but income and consumption … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also …

la Reichlin (1986) and aspirations, i.e. effective consumption by individuals of the current generation depends on the … importance of aspirations in utility is responsible for the existence of either one (normalised) steady state or two steady … externality. Moreover, some interesting global dynamic properties emerge: indeed, when the relative importance of aspirations is …

so, it fuels our aspirations in different life domains. The first two effects can be expected to improve people … joint action of people’s identity and aspirations. In this paper, I explore data drawn from the Survey on Household Income … and Wealth (SHIW) conducted by the Bank of Italy (2008), containing rich information on people’s socioeconomic and …

satisfaction after the decision making process). Simon’s model shows the need for defining aspirations whose values are adapted to … on aspirations and satisfaction expressed by students attending an economic course. …

, we decompose the gender wage gap between graduates and individuals with secondary education, and finally we analyse the …-Blinder decomposition technique is used. We find that the unexplained part, which is often related to discrimination is lower for graduates …