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This paper develops an endogenous growth model that incorporates wealth-enhanced preferences for social status and labour market frictions to investigate the role of social status in determining unemployment and long-run growth. We show that the increase in the desire for social status reduces the unemployment rate, but its effect on long-run growth is unclear. We then calibrate our model to the US economy and find that an increase in the desire for social status lowers the unemployment rate and enhances the economic growth rate in the long run.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
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