It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

the income of inhabitants. Other researchers have studied the close and even nearly causal relationship between those … transports. The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between the size of labor market, the income and the … the income are largely defined by the level of improvements of urban public transports on each zone of the city and the …

migration decisions. I show that as the earned income of spouses become similar, the probability of migration falls … strongly correlated with relative income, 2) it yields qualitatively similar results when I model the incidence of attrition as … income similarity of couples and interstate migration is especially strong for couples with similar labor market …