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China’'s economic reforms, which began in 1978, resulted in remarkable income growth, and urban Chinese consumers have … China. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to test for structural change in aggregate household data from …
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More than one billion adults are overweight worldwide, and more than 300 million of them clinically obese, raising the risk of many serious diseases. Only 3.6 percent of Japanese have a body mass index (BMI) over 30, which is the international standard for obesity, whereas 32.0 percent of...
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Japán és a Távol-Kelet évtizedeken keresztül a világ egyéb térségeinek csodá-latát vívta ki elsősorban az átlagot meghaladó, gyors gazdasági növekedésével. Az 1990-es években a korábbi „keleti motor”-ként tekintett Japán gazdasága kü-lönleges helyzetbe került: a...
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have the income and education to make their purchase decisions based on how it will effect others and the environment. We … found higher income levels and educational attainment to be characteristics of our ethical consumer. We also found that the …
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/08 and other global and regional price and income shocks that followed have spurred interest in producing timely predictions … studies set in Malawi, which analyse welfare in terms of food security and income effects using the same 2004/05 household …
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To analyze U.S. consumers' brand choices for cheese purchases, we derive a set of discrete-choice models from dynamic utility maximization. ACNielsen Homescan Survey data on U.S. households is used to estimate a dynamic probit model for each of the top brands for cheddar, shredded, and sliced...
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the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of programs on national employment and income. A special purpose version … federal budget. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment and wage income are reported by program … 332,000 jobs and about $5.3 billion in wage income (1995$) by the year 2030. Because the required investments to achieve …
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-integration between income and consumption, based on a periodic error correction model, is rejected. A PADL specification is preferred for … modelling the income-consumption relationship, using seasonally unadjusted data. …
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A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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