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The social status of vocational education and training in Switzerland
Bolli, Thomas; Rageth, Ladina; Renold, Ursula - 2019
This paper analyses how the social status of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland has changed over … higher for women than for men, in rural than in urban areas, and for students with a parent born in Switzerland than for … find that the social status of VET is higher in the French- and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland than in the German …
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Can't buy me love ... or can i? : social capital attainment through conspicuous consumption in virtual environments
Hinz, Oliver; Spann, Martin; Hann, Il-Horn - In: Information systems research : ISR 26 (2015) 4, pp. 859-870
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Sharing common resources in patriarchal and status-based societies : evidence from Tanzania
Lecoutere, Els; D'Exelle, Ben; Van Campehout, Bjorn - In: Feminist economics 21 (2015) 3, pp. 142-167
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Social identity and social free-riding
Bernard, Mark; Hett, Florian; Mechtel, Mario - 2015
We model individual identification choice as a strategic group formation problem. When choosing a social group to identify with, individuals appreciate high social status and a group stereotype to which they have a small social distance. A group's social status and stereotype are shaped by the...
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Sentimental drivers of social entrepreneurship : a study of China's Guangcai (Glorious) program
Yiu, Daphne W.; Wan, William P.; Ng, Frank W.; Chen, Xing; … - In: Management and organization review : MOR ; the journal … 10 (2014) 1, pp. 55-80
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How much does social status matter to health? : evidence from China's academician election
Liu, Gordon G.; Kwon, Ohyun; Xue, Xindong; Fleisher, … - 2014
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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Social status and risk-taking in a model of occupational choice
Clemens, Christiane - 2002
This paper is concerned with occupational choice under risk, where agents care about their social status. It is motivated by recent developments in the 'New Economy', which indicate that status preferences possibly provide an explanation for the observed shift towards entrepreneurial...
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Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better-paid job : the effect of relative income on job mobility
Kronenberg, Kristin; Kronenberg, Tobias - 2011
It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their relative income is low. In this paper we study this...
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Lower in rank, but happier: the complex relationship between status and happiness
Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2016
Case studies across the social sciences have established a positive relationship between social status and happiness. In observational data, however, identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste from birth. In data on 1000...
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Credit scoring with social network data
Wei, Yanhao; Yildirim, Pinar; Van Den Bulte, Christophe; … - In: Marketing science : the marketing journal of the … 35 (2016) 2, pp. 234-258
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