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Beyond Engel´ s Law: Pursuing an Engelian approach to welfare a cross country analysis
Kaus, Wolfhard - 2012
distinction between necessities and luxuries, already Ernst Engel (1895) approached a behaviorally founded comprehensive …
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Beyond Engel s Law - Pursuing an Engelian Approach to Welfare A Cross Country Analysis
Kaus, Wolfhard - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
distinction between necessities and luxuries, already Ernst Engel (1895) approached a behaviorally founded comprehensive …
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Luxuries, necessities, and the allocation of time
Fang, Lei; Hannusch, Anne; Silos, Pedro - 2021
types: luxuries and necessities. Luxuries (necessities) are activities for which time and expenditure shares rise (decline …, the rise in the price of leisure luxuries has reduced welfare inequality while the rise in wage dispersion has increased … reallocations of time and expenditures across activities. This effect is quantitatively important for welfare inequality. Since 2003 …
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Luxuries, necessities, and the allocation of time
Fang, Lei; Hannusch, Anne; Silos, Pedro - 2021
types: luxuries and necessities. Luxuries (necessities) are activities for which time and expenditure shares rise (decline …, the rise in the price of leisure luxuries has reduced welfare inequality while the rise in wage dispersion has increased … reallocations of time and expenditures across activities. This effect is quantitatively important for welfare inequality. Since 2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792724
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Optimal consumption/investment and retirement with necessities and luxuries
Koo, Hyeng-keun; Roh, Kum-Hwan; Shin, Yong Hyun - In: Mathematical methods of operations research : ZOR 94 (2021) 2, pp. 281-317
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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008
If mankind’s three basic necessities have always been food, clothing, and shelter, whose production, trade, and … question: how do they distinguish between necessities and luxury products? Indeed, any examination of later-medieval, early … people, luxury textiles may have been deemed as personal ‘necessities’. This study is based upon two statistical tables, for …
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The Demand for Services in India. A Mirror Image of Engel's Law for Food?
Nayyar, Gaurav - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
India's development experience over the past fifty years suggests that the increasing importance of the services sector deserves analysis.  The literature on structural change has emphasised changing patterns of demand as an explanation for the increasing importance of the services sector.  In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004136
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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns: Implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389658
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Differences across place and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
Equivalence scales are often used to adjust household income for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not double due to economies of scale in consumption. However, in comparing economic well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165604
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The influence of purchase date and flight duration over the dispersion of airline ticket prices
Szopiński, Tomasz Stanisław; Nowacki, Robert - In: Contemporary Economics 9 (2015) 3, pp. 353-366
For many years, the air travel market has been the most regulated sector of the economy. Within the last few decades, it has undergone profound change, which is largely a consequence of changes in the law. Another factor that exerted influence on the market was the popularization of new...
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