. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …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 …

status. While briefly reviewing evidence from different literatures that is consistent with the existence of preferences for … status, we pay special attention to experimental work that attempts to study status directly by inducing it in the lab …