Bekir, Insaf; Harbi, Sana El; Grolleau, Gilles - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011
We contend that consumption of a given status conveying good frequently follows a Kuznet-like curve. Concretely, the … consumption of a given status marker first increases with the level of income per capita, reaches a maximum and then decreases at … higher levels of income. Moreover, globalization had led to a greater homogenization of status markers across societies …