For the phenomenon that many young people would rather go into debt to buy luxury goods, this research examines how the discrepancy between consumers' actual self-congruity and ideal self-congruity towards the luxury brand affects their happiness after purchase. Across four studies, the research...

Goal of the text is to find links between current phase of economic globalisation and income distribution in developing economies. Dynamics and structure of income in so called emerging economies is in the bigger and bigger extend affected by growing international flows of trade and capital....

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...