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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects … effects are heterogeneous, both in the type of immigrant classmates, and in the type of native students that are affected …
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parents to have fewer but better educated children, which may foster economic development. Second, government should sometimes …
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In today’s changing world the business environment is changing rapidly. The emergence of e-commerce and development of information and technology plays a significant role in the nature of work as well as their attitude towards the organization. We have been experiencing a tremendous growth in...
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It has been shown that a person’s relative income – compared to a reference group – has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …
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This study examines the effects of monetary policy in a two-sector cash-in-advance economy of human capital accumulation. Agents concern about their social status represented by the relative physical capital and relative human capital. We find that if the desire for social status depends only on...
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In this paper we present a model of economic growth where agents are characterized by social status concern behaviour. With respect to the literature, we show that social status seeking is not always desirable for economic growth. Specially, we prove that the impact of status seeking on growth...
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We consider a model that extends the scope of social preferences of the families of the migrants. This extension allows us to show that if some poor families receive remittances and social culture affects the composition of their consumption, then in presence of strong social inequality, poor...
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We integrate a general social norm function which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a very simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater cultural weight on capital as opposed to consumption preferences will experience fast growth....
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We integrate a general social norm function which associates status to accumulation of capital and consumption into a simple model of endogenous growth. We show that societies which place a greater weight on capital as opposed to consumption will experience fast growth.Our results are consistent...
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In this paper, we elicit preferences of Swiss citizens for the allocation of income redistribution to different uses … amount of income redistribution as a share of disposable income. Here, we estimate marginal willingness-to-pay values for … types of recipients (old-age pensioners, people with ill health, the unemployed, working poor, and families with children …
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