Several papers have looked into the effect of obesity on wage and employment, mainly using data for the US. However, none has looked into the effect of obesity on upward mobility and unemployment duration. Using biannual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel data (GSOEP), covering 2002-2012,...

We examine the links between migration and a novel family of generalized proximity-sensitive relative deprivation measures. We find that higher international migration intentions are associated with higher relative deprivation when people tend to accord increasing weights to comparisons with the...