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The credit crisis has revealed economic inequalities across the world, yet it has emphasized transitions in the way middle class and working class people have handled wealth and consumption. This has mostly been focused in the press on changes in home ownership but has had dramatic effects in...
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equivalents it then calculates how much individual welfare is affected in each economy by unexpected losses and gains of wealth. …
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equivalents it then calculates how much individual welfare is affected in each economy by unexpected losses and gains of wealth. …
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This paper quantifies the welfare cost of consumption externalities in an endogenous growth model with habit formation … past consumption. Although utility may be lower in the presence of consumption externalities, the welfare loss relative to …. However, there are relatively important differences in the timing of the welfare loss and in generational welfare. …
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This paper quantifies the welfare cost of consumption externalities in an endogenous growth model with habit formation … past consumption. Although utility may be lower in the presence of consumption externalities, the welfare loss relative to …. However, there are relatively important differences in the timing of the welfare loss and in generational welfare. …
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affect welfare. If firms also pursue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) objectives, input choices may be distorted already … employment if there is efficient bargaining. Importantly from a normative vantage point, such CSR objectives make a welfare …
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whether there is wage or efficient bargaining. Moreover, trade unions redistribute income and thereby affect welfare. If firms …. Importantly from a normative vantage point, such CSR objectives make a welfare-enhancing role of trade unions more likely in the …
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This paper investigates the effects of the UK privatization process by estimating changes in household welfare on the … generated aggregate welfare gains for households. When exogenous input costs in the production process are controlled for, it is … noted that the role of privatization is more limited, being between 15% and 50% of the total welfare change obtained after …
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The distinction between technological and pecuniary externalities, usually made in production, can also be applied to consumption. Technological externalities create resource misallocations while pecuniary externalities do not. Taking a household production approach to consumption, this paper...
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In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In West Germany, they cancel out to give...
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