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Consuming work: front‐line workers and their customers in Jobcentre Plus
Rosenthal, Patrice; Peccei, Riccardo - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 19 (2006) 7, pp. 659-672
consumer discourses in reformed British welfare administration, through a focus on consumption and the service interaction. The … paper aims to explore how administrators use these discourses to manage consumption in particular ways in order to promote … public sector reform, through focus on consumption and the service interaction.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014798895
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Marketing in a multicultural world
Jamal, Ahmad - In: European Journal of Marketing 37 (2003) 11/12, pp. 1599-1620
Marketing as a concept pays a great deal of attention to the individual market transactions, ignoring the impact of marketing practices on society at a macro level. The paper argues that, in a multicultural marketplace, marketers and consumers of different ethnic backgrounds co‐exist, interact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014722129
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A comparison of distilled spirit consumption patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States
Meloche, Martin S.; Stanton, John L. - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 1 (2009) 2, pp. 162-168
creatively across different studies. It also points out the changing direction of distilled spirit consumption within the USA and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015037542
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A good night out: alcohol‐related behaviours in young adults
Ritchie, Caroline; Ritchie, Felix; Ward, Richard - In: Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 1 (2009) 2, pp. 169-193
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate drinking patterns; attitudes towards alcohol consumption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015037543
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Defying marketing sovereignty: voluntary simplicity at new consumption communities
Bekin, Caroline; Carrigan, Marylyn; Szmigin, Isabelle - In: Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 8 (2005) 4, pp. 413-429
Purpose – To broaden the scope of our knowledge of collective voluntarily simplified lifestyles in the UK, by exploring whether voluntary simplifiers achieve their goals by adopting a simpler life. Design/methodology/approach – Radical forms of voluntary simplifier groups were explored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014987117
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Consumption Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Two Panel Data Sets
Fisher, Jonathan D; Johnson, David S - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 6 (2006) 1
Abstract This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed ….S. data use income.This paper uses cohort data from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys on total consumption to impute … consumption in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Then, we use this imputed consumption and actual income from the PSID to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014587573
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Nonexponential Discounting: A Direct Test And Perhaps A New Puzzle
Startz, Richard; Tsang, Kwok Ping - In: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 12 (2012) 1
to make a significant difference in consumption choices over long horizons. Our results can be viewed as providing …
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The Relationship between Stock Prices, House Prices and Consumption in OECD Countries
Ludwig, Alexander; Sløk, Torsten - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 4 (2004) 1
Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between stock prices, house prices and consumption using data for 16 OECD … countries. The panel data analysis suggests that the long-run responsiveness of consumption to permanent changes in stock prices …. Splitting the sample into the 1980s and 1990s further shows an increased sensitivity in the 1990's of consumption to permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014588356
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Death to the Log-Linearized Consumption Euler Equation! (And Very Poor Health to the Second-Order Approximation)
Carroll, Christopher Dixon - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 1 (2001) 1
Abstract This paper shows that standard methods for estimating log-linearized consumption Euler equations using micro … simulated consumers behaving exactly according to the standard model. Furthermore, consumption growth for the simulated …-order approximation to the Euler equation. The paper concludes that empirical estimation of consumption Euler equations should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014588464
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Comparing Wealth Effects: The Stock Market versus the Housing Market
Case, Karl E.; Quigley, John M.; Shiller, Robert J. - In: Topics in Macroeconomics 5 (2005) 1
assets, and measures of aggregate consumption for each of the geographic units over time. We estimate regression models in … levels, first differences and in error-correction form, relating consumption to income and wealth measures. We find a … statistically significant and rather large effect of housing wealth upon household consumption.  …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014588476