dc.contributor.author | Chai, Andreas | |
dc.contributor.author | Kaus, Wolfhard | |
dc.contributor.editor | Nguyen, Tom | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-16T08:01:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-16T08:01:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1837-7750 | |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:gri:epaper:economics:201202 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/390375 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the relationship between the dispersion of group income and conspicuous consumption levels of individuals in multi-group settings. Consistent with existing finding we find a negative relationship between income dispersion and conspicuous consumption. Further, using South African data, we find evidence that increasing the income distribution has precisely the reverse of the hypothesized effect: as the dispersion of income within a group increases, rich households in the group tend to reduce spending on visible goods, while the poor tend to increase spending on visible goods. | |
dc.format.extent | 11 pages | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Griffith University | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane, Australia | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 11 | |
dc.subject.keywords | J15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination | |
dc.subject.keywords | D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief | |
dc.subject.keywords | D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis | |
dc.subject.keywords | O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development | |
dc.subject.keywords | Conspicuous consumption | |
dc.subject.keywords | income distribution | |
dc.subject.keywords | signaling | |
dc.subject.keywords | status | |
dc.subject.keywords | South Africa | |
dc.title | 2012-02: Conspicuous consumption and the distribution of income within social groups (Working paper) | |
dc.type | Report | |
dc.type.description | Discussion Paper | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Business School | |
gro.description.notepublic | Economics and Business Statistics | |
gro.rights.copyright | Copyright © 2010 by author(s). No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior permission of the author(s). | |
gro.date.issued | 2012 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Chai, Andreas | |