Keeping up with the Joneses
Research on the Issue of the Individual Behavior and Social Atmosphere of “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and Rural Households’ Marriage Expenditure: An Analysis Based on Buck’s Survey Data of Chinese Farmers during 1929 1933
... the Joneses”, and quantitatively analyzed the impact of income gap and credit availability on the atmosphere of “keeping-up with the Joneses”, and its effect on pushing up the marriage ...
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Growth and Keeping up with the Joneses
... (“catching up with the Joneses”), Alvarez-Cuadrado et ...catch up with the Joneses raises (lowers) the consump- tion growth rate if consumption exceeds (is lower than) the consumption ...
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Keeping up with the Joneses by finding a better paid job The effect of relative income on job mobility
... In this paper we have studied the effects of relative income on job mobility, using a sample of roughly four million Dutch employees. The main goals of our study were to find out whether relative income induces higher ...
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Accumulation of reserves and keeping up with the Joneses: the case of LATAM economies
... the Joneses variable continues to be highly significant and positive and its magnitude is quite comparable to the one reported in say Column ...estimated Joneses effect is not likely to be attributable to ...
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Consumerist education: What is it worth?
... ‘keeping up with the Joneses.’ Therefore, by building up self-worth through the acquisition of goods, the consumerist idea of moral good is ...
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Conspicuous Consumption and Overlapping Generations
... Second, if λ < λ ˜ then Γ < 0, according to Lemma 1(iii). For this case, Proposition 1 shows that the keeping up with the Joneses consumption externality raises the steady state propensity to ...
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Externalities in a Model of Perpetual Youth with Age Dependent Productivity
... Abstract. This paper investigates the effects of (“keeping up with the Joneses” and “learning-by-investing”) externalities, when labor productivity decreases with age. Within the framework of a ...
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Keeping up with the e Joneses: Do online social networks raise social comparisons?
... shifting up the benchmark for people’s posi- tional concerns: income and consumption levels are compared not only to those of their actual social reference group, but also to those of their virtual reference ...
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Keeping Up with the Virtual Joneses: The Practices, Meanings, and Consequences of Consumption in Second Life
... show up in object descriptions in-world and in online marketplaces, such as slim, sexy, and ...shows up frequently in Second Life consumption, both in-world and through the online ...
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A Prospective Clinical Evaluation of Laparoscopic Repair of Incisional Herniae
... Keeping in view the above facts, a prospective study of laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia was taken up in the Postgraduate Department of Surgery, Governmen[r] ...
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Keeping It Private
... This Article suggests several reasons why they should not. Turning private law more public in such a way would have considerable costs in legal stability, transparency, legitimacy, and in judicial habits of neutrality ...
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Keeping in touch
... Understandings of how and why a technology might be useful in a particular context differ widely (e.g. to effect behaviour change on specific issues such as health or crime, opening up creative or communication ...
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Keeping up appearances : family carers and people with dementia negotiating normalcy through dress practice
... What constitutes ordinariness or normality is differentiated, however, according to gender and generation. In relationships which involve a wife caring for her husband, assistance with dress was more in keeping ...
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Exploring the Impact of Work Life Balance on the Employee and Organisational Growth
... During the time spent personal branding, people are generally connected with self-showcasing. In any case, Shepherd (2005) depicted personal branding from a livelihood perspective and portrayed the potential advantages ...
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Integrated Pest Management in Ornamentals: Information Guide. Horticulture Series: Agrilink,your growing guide to better farming.
... No, but it’s a good idea. Many growers may initially employ a consultant while they build up their confidence and skills in implementing IPM; some may wish to retain their consultant as a permanent part of their ...
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Keeping up the Momentum: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Professional Development in Digital Technologies for Academic Librarians at an Australian University
... With its focus on user views, the study largely took a qualitative approach, with descriptive statistics generated from Likert-scale items in an initial survey, enriched by comments made in response to open questions, ...
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Occupations Observatory Methodological Note CEPS Special Report No 144, August 2016
... picked up (either via the API or via a web crawling technique that extracts the list of tags – this depends on the portal) and stored in a ...picked up when we created the ...
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Keeping up with the times : are the sports sections of newspapers adapting to a changing media environment?
... To put the changes between 1995 and 2005 in context, consider baseball fans. Those fans had only a few ways other than a newspaper in 1995 to keep up with their favorite teams. If someone in Boston wanted to ...
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Keeping promises [Interview]
... marketing keeping promises is more straightforward; basically the product takes care of ...promise keeping is reproduced every time a customer is ...
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Keeping up with Princess Diana in the late 90s: A story of denied literacy in remote Central Australian Indigenous communities
... While it may seem obvious that the children will develop emergent literacy behaviours simply by being given books, there has been limited research to date in bilingual situations where t[r] ...
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