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This article presents a microeconometric analysis of the annual mileage travelled by French households with their personal cars, defining their automobility. To feature car use dependence, the rational addiction model of Becker et al. (1994) is applied on a panel dataset, drawn from the French...
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effects on investment, consumption and net exports. This study focuses on econometric issues about the consumption function …. Post Keynesians generally fail to find a long-run relation between consumption, wages, profits and wealth. However, taking … relation between income distribution and consumption. The empirical analysis applies on U.S. quarterly data for the period 1960-2007. …
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Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the … so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife … approach to estimate the effect of each partner's retirement on household consumption. We use for the analysis data drawn from …
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Este trabajo parte de la idea de que la reproducción del subdesarrollo brasileño se explica por la persistencia de un conjunto de elementos que operan como obstáculos de carácter estructural, a los que nos referimos con el nombre de límites estructurales al desarrollo económico....
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consumers because almost adolescents revealed competency in some aspects of consumption such as: using Internet and blogs to … improve their consumption skills, comparison shopping, innovation by consumption and usage. However, teenagers could be … consumption and purchasing. In addition, today's young consumers are facing a new risk related to technologies usages. In order to …
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What was the role of consumption structure evolution in the industrialization phases of the Western world since the 18 … consumption structure evolution and establish a plausible link between consumption structure evolutions and industrial revolutions … consumption habits evolution in the schumpeterian growth process. Finally, we show that consumption habits evolutions can be …
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The principle of conditional convergence, in growth theory, fails to explain growth paths that are durably divergent among countries having similar structural characteristics (same rates of investment, of capitaldepreciation, of demographic growth, and similar access to technologies and...
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We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …
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level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …
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On the website of their recent book Pour une Revolution Fiscale, Landais, Piketty and Saez (2011) have provided the public with free access to all their quantitative data, inviting the readership to critically appraise and publicly discuss their work. Unfortunately, the book's graphical...
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