This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new … neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … signals ability/status). Second, borrowing increases when consumption is conspicuous. More critically, this increase in loan …

aim to protect lifestyles or signal status to others, but rather reflect a subtler expansion of the standard of living … Konsum zu finanzieren, der weder einen bestimmten Lebensstil absichern noch Dritten gegenüber einen bestimmten Status …

The extant literature on status-signalling primarily adopts Veblen's theory of class to caste and racial identities …