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Relative Deprivation and Migration Preferences

In this letter, we overcome the existing shortages with respect to the assignment of individuals to reference groups and are the first to show that individual aversion to relative deprivation plays a decisive role in shaping migration preferences.

01. February 2014

Authors Walter Hyll Lutz Schneider

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Keywords

migration relative deprivation migration preferences heterogeneous individuals

JEL Classification

A14 D31 D63 J61

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