 The Distributional Effects of Peer and Aspirational PressureKonstantinos Angelopoulos, Spyros Lazarakis and Jim Malley No 419434468, Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department Abstract: We develop a theoretical framework where the cross-sectional distributions of hours, earnings, wealth and consumption are determined jointly with a set of expenditure targets defining peer and aspirational pressure for members of different social classes. We show existence of a stationary socio-economic equilibrium, under idiosyncratic stochastic productivity and socio-economic class participation. We calibrate a model belonging to this framework using British data and find that it captures the main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on within-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who aspire to match social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. Keywords: inequality; incomplete markets; peer pressure; aspirations (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lan:wpaper:419434468 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department Contact information at EDIRC. |
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