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Thompson Reuters / University of Michigan - Surveys of Consumers

Survey Research Center <Ann Arbor, Mich.>

The Surveys of Consumers has been conducted by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan since 1946. Each month, 500 individuals are randomly selected from the contiguous United States (48 states plus the District of Columbia) to participate in the Surveys of Consumers. The...

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Gütekriterien einer deutschsprachigen Version der Mini-Markers zur Erfassung der "Big Five"

Weller, Ingo; Matiaske, Wenzel - Werkstatt für Organisations- und Personalforschung e.V. - 2008

In Umfragen ist es häufig notwendig, Persönlichkeitsmerkmale der Probanden zu erheben. Die vorhandenen und validierten Standardinstrumente der Persönlichkeitspsychologie sind aufgrund ihres Umfangs nur bedingt dazu geeignet, in personalwirtschaftlichen Studien ein-gesetzt zu werden. Wir...

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Poverty in Britain in 1904:An Early Social Survey Rediscovered

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative …

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The distribution of households consumption-expenditure budget shares

Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined … as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of … Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find that household budget share distributionsare fairly stable over time for each …

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Interpersonal allocation behavior in a household savings experiment

Anderhub, Vital; Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

We investigate the intertemporal and interpersonal allocation behavior ofspouses with different deterministic life expectations in an experiment. In eachperiod of their life both partners propose a consumption level one of which isthen randomly implemented. In spite of the complex dynamics...

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The Distribution of Consumption-ExpenditureBudget Shares. Evidence fromItalian Households

Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditure budgetshares distributions (HBSDs …) —defined as the share of household total expenditurespent for purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample …

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Clustering Households by Time Use Patterns - An empirical investigation using the German Time Use Survey

Grossmann, Stéphanie - Institut für Ökonomische Bildung <Münster, Westfalen> - 2009

Clustering individuals or households on the basis of socio-economic variables has become awidespread practice in German social research over the past few decades. This paper is part ofa research project that explores results which may be obtained when time use patterns arechosen as the basis of...

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IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE FINANCE, SENIORITY WAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Roberts, Mark A. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

If households and firms face different interest rates, there may be mutual gains in forming seniority wage contracts, which facilitate implicit saving by younger workers, who might otherwise save either little or nothing at all at low interest rates. A three-period OLG model is presented with...

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HOUSINGCOSTS, HOUSE PRICE SHOCKS ANDSAVINGS BEHAVIOUR AMONG OLDERHOUSEHOLDS IN BRITAIN

Disney, Richard; Henley, Andrew; Stears, Gary - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1999

Several policy issues arise in this context. If households are unable or unwilling to move inold age, their consumption behaviour may be constrained by asset illiquidity...

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Das Wechselverhalten von Privathaushalten im Strommarkt

Rennhak, Carsten; Halfmann, Marion; Bakay, Zoltán - Munich Business School - 2003

Im Gegensatz zu der Euphorie, die nach dem 1.1.1998 auf dem deutschen Telekommunikati-onsmarkt herrschte und dem damit einhergehenden Boom von Call-by-Call-Produkten, zeigen sich private Haushalte in Deutschland beim Wechsel ihres Stromversorgers trotz aufwendiger Werbemaßnahmen und...

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