accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

characteristics such as the woman's level of education, or household income, have at most a marginal impact on these profiles. …

important peer effect that should not be omitted in the estimation of educational production functions. …