Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours: Was Thorsten Veblen Right?

2005

434 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/110f54af6a627b71ac5621a52cac665bf44a5a62

Citations in the corpus

• Wealth Inequality and Carbon Emissions in High-income Countries (2017, positive): “…associated with longer working hours and increased competitive status-based consumption, both of which are associated with greater energy consumption and carbon emissions (Schor 1998; Knight, Rosa, and Schor 2013; Bowles and Park 2005; Cushing et al. 2015; Fitzgerald, Jorgenson, and Clark 2015).”
• Inequality and Happiness (2012, positive): “Bowles and Park (2005) use 10 OECD countries (1963–1998) and find empirical evidence of a positive relationship between inequality and number of working hours, which may, everything else equal, also decrease happiness.”
• Income Inequality and Carbon Emissions in the United States: A State-level Analysis, 1997–2012 (2017, positive): “A third approach posits that greater concentrations of income at the top of the distribution lead to heightened consumption competition and longer hours of work, which in turn increases energy consumption and emissions (Bowles and Park, 2005; Schor, 1998).”
• The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000 (2007, positive): “Bowles and Park (2005) provide a more general model of social emulation—the craving to follow the consumption standards of the rich—in which hours of work increase in the degree of inequality.”
• A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork (2009, positive): “In the context of growing income inequality, this requires that relatively less well-off individuals work more hours in order to sustain their relative position in consumption levels, to emulate the consumption patterns of the already wealthy (Bowles and Park, 2005; Schor, 1992).”
• Wage stagnation, rising inequality and the financial crisis of 2008. (2013, positive): “This relationship is supported by a transnational study that found ―that increased inequality induces people to work longer hours [and] …the underlying cause is the Veblen effect of the consumption of the rich on the behaviour of those less well off‖ (Bowles and Park 2005: F410).”
• When the Joneses’ consumption hurts : Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation (2008, positive): “We also follow e.g. Akerlof (1997), Corneo and Jeanne (1997), Ljungqvist and Uhlig (2000), Bowles and Park (2005) and Carlsson et al. (2007) in letting the relative consumption be described by the difference between the individual's own consumption and the mean consumption in the economy as a…”
• Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, neutral): “…Johansson-Stenman, 2008; Boskin and Sheshinki, 1978; Dupor and Liu, 2003; Ljungqvist and Uhlig, 2000), the determination of work hours (Bell and Freeman, 2001; Bowles and Park, 2005), public spending (Ng, 1987), and the allocation of resources in general (Fershtman and Weiss, 1993), among others.”
• Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, positive): “levels of income inequality have also led workers to prefer longer hours [72,73].”
• Conspicuous Consumption, Inequality and Debt: The Nature of Consumption‐driven Profit‐led Regimes (2015, positive): “Empirical evidence for the importance of relative consumption concerns for determining credit demand is provided by Christen and Morgan (2005), who show that increases in income inequality (measured by the Gini-Index) contributed significantly to the rise in consumer credit in the USA. Similarly, Kr”
• Subjective relative income and lottery ticket purchases (2008, positive): “Bowles & Park (2005) demonstrate a similar effect on labor supply.”
• Did Inequality Cause the U.S. Financial Crisis (2014, positive): “Considering first the link between inequality and labour supply, Bowles and Park (2005), after estimating a panel data model for 10 European and Northern American countries for the period 1963-1998, conclude that greater inequality is indeed associated with longer work hours, controlling for other…”
• Debt-driven growth? Wealth, distribution and demand in OECD countries (2016, neutral): “9 Neumark and Postlewaite (1998) and Bowles and Park (2005) use income and inequality measures to explain labour supply decisions.”