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Work and Television
Corneo, Giacomo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Nowadays, people in OECD countries spend about as much time watching television as earning a living. In this Paper I report a puzzling fact about those time uses: television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on complementarities in the...
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Economics and Happiness: Why More is Sometimes not Better
Mlčoch, Lubomír - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 2, pp. 147-163
the longitudinal international research of the link "economics-happiness" at the frontier between economics and psychology … what a "theory of happiness" argues against a "joyless economy". The family-household is an old istitution esp. loosing in … sometimes less. The loss of happiness in market democracies (R.Lane) is the reason for a crisis of economic paradigm; it has a …
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Relational consumption and nonlinear dynamics in an overlapping generations model
Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro; Zarri, Luca - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012
welfare implications and relate them to the well-known “happiness paradox” arising within contemporary affluent societies. …
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Relational Consumption and Nonlinear Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Model
Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro; Zarri, Luca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia - 2012
welfare implications and relate them to the well-known ‘happiness paradox’ arising within contemporary affluent societies. …
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Social Participation and Hours Worked
Stefano, BARTOLINI; Ennio, BILANCINI - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011
We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market. Social participation is the component of social capital that measures individuals’ engagement in groups, associations and non-governmental organizations. We provide a model of consumer choice where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647481
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Social Participation and Hours Worked
Bartolini, Stefano; Bilancini, Ennio - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2011
We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market. Social participation is the component of social capital that measures individuals’ engament in groups, associations and non-governmental organizations. We provide a model of consumer choice where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367516
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The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Growing Hyper-technological Economy
Sabatini, Fabio; Antoci, Angelo; Sodini, Mauro - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2010
Paper presented at the Conference “From GDP to Well-Being: Economics on the Road to Sustainability”, Ancona, Italy, 3-5 December 2009. <p> Abstract <p> We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized...</p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752129
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The Solaria Syndrome: Social Capital in a Growing Hyper-technological Economy
Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2010
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632927
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The Solaria Syndrome: Social capital in a growing hypertechnological economy
Angelo, Antoci; Fabio, Sabatini; Mauro, Sodini - Department of Communication, University of Teramo - 2010
We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous technical progress. Starting from the assumption that the well-being of agents basically depends on material and relational goods, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008464293
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Economic Growth and Social Poverty: The Evolution of Social Participation
Antoci, Angelo; Sacco, Pier Luigi; Vanin, Paolo - University of Bonn, Germany - 2001
We develop an evolutionary model of growth in which agents choose how to allocate their time between private and social activities. We argue that a shift from social to private activities may foster market-based growth, but also generate social poverty. Within a formal framework that merges a...
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