This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter. -- income …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …