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Social Status, Human Capital Formation and the Long-run Effects of Money

Chen, Hung-Ju - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study examines the effects of monetary policy in a two-sector cash-in-advance economy of human capital accumulation. Agents concern about their social status represented by the relative physical capital and relative human capital. We find that if the desire for social status depends only on...

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Diaspora transferts statut social et inégalité

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We consider a model that extends the scope of social preferences of the families of the migrants. This extension allows us to show that if some poor families receive remittances and social culture affects the composition of their consumption, then in presence of strong social inequality, poor...

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Culture values and economic growth

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We integrate a general social norm function which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a very simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater cultural weight on capital as opposed to consumption preferences will experience fast growth....

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Beliefs incentives and economic growth

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We integrate a general social norm function which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater weight on capital as opposed to consumption will experience fast growth.Our results are consistent...

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Croissance et statut social

Jellal, Mohamed; Rajhi, Taoufik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

In this paper we present a model of economic growth where agents are characterized by social status concern behaviour. With respect to the literature, we show that social status seeking is not always desirable for economic growth. Specially, we prove that the impact of status seeking on growth...

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Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.

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Unemployment, Economic Status and Ethnic Politics

Mehar, Ayub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

ethnic politics in Karachi. The disparities in income, employment and social status have been compared between the nine …

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Parents as stakeholders: Their expectations in individualized education plan for special education

Mislan, Nora; Kosnin, Azlina Mohd; Yeo, Kee Jiar; Rio … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The importance of equality among people cannot be over-stressed as it is already now which includes children with … investigate parents' expectations towards the implementation. To gather data, semi-structured interviews are deployed to seven … teaches and five parents while questionnaires are given to 17 teachers and 26 parents. The findings show that parents are …

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Aides aux parents âgés et allocation intra-familiale

Jellal, Mohamed; wolff, François charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers …, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational … transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their parents (a public good). Decisions of upstream assistance are …

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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...

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