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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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Intergenerational mobility in Latin America : the multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers
Ciaschi, Matías; Marchionni, Mariana; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023
In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American countries—Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama—by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on the method proposed by Lubotsky and Wittenberg (2006),...
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Dominance and submission: Social status biases economic sanctions
von Essen, Emma; Ranehill, Eva - 2011
no support for female discrimination. This result suggests that social status has important implications for men … hierarchical systems. This paper combines social status and norm enforcement, by introducing status in a dictator game with third … party punishment. Status is conveyed by surname; half of the third parties face dictators with a noble name and half face …
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The consequences of revealing first-generational status
Belmi, Peter; Raz, Kelly; Neale, Margaret; Thomas-Hunt, … - In: Organization science 35 (2024) 2, pp. 667-697
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Conspicuous consumption in Africa
Posel, Deborah (ed.); Van Wyk, Ilana (ed.) - 2019
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Social limits to redistribution and conspicuous norms
Ferrari, Luca - 2018
In this article the author considers an economy in which individuals are matched into pairs and the desirability of an individual depends on her position on the distribution of wealth. The author assumes that individuals show their relative standing by consuming a conspicuous good and he shows...
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Social limits to redistribution and conspicuous norms
Ferrari, Luca - 2018
In this article the author considers an economy in which individuals are matched into pairs and the desirability of an individual depends on her position on the distribution of wealth. He assumes that individuals show their relative standing by consuming a conspicuous good and he shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899205
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Endogenous organizational restructuring: status, productivity, & meritocratic dynamics
Thakur, Ashutosh; Bendor, Jonathan - 2021
their own status in the organization, the organizational output, their friends' welfare, and the quality of their own …
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How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? : critiquing the concept of dirty work
Zulfiqar, Ghazal Mir; Prasad, Ajnesh - In: Human relations : towards the integration of the social … 75 (2022) 11, pp. 2160-2186
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From status-seeking consumption to social norms : an application to the consumption of cleanliness
Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2008
Interdependencies in consumer behavior stem from either status-seeking consumption or compliance with social norms …. This paper analyzes how a consumption act changes from a means to signal the consumer's status to a means of norm … emergence of the cleanliness norm in the 19th century. -- social norms ; status seeking ; externalities ; consumer needs …
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