Positional goods… or positional people? Implications for taxation and happiness

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Positional goods… or positional people? Implications for taxation and happiness

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Colin Ash () (Department of Economics, University of Reading)
J. Malcolm Dowlinga

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We report the results of surveys on positional concerns for income and leisure. The results confirm earlier evidence that a majority of people are positional regarding income. We also look at the distribution of both these positional concerns among our respondents, something which has not previously been investigated. Our findings point to the need for a more subtle approach than has previously been proposed for using taxation to correct distortions in the income-leisure choice.

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Paper provided by Henley Business School, Reading University in its series Economics & Management Discussion Papers with number em-dp2008-62.

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Date of creation: 2008
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NEP-ALL-2009-01-17 (All new papers)
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