Elitist matching and skewness in income distributions

A simple competitive matching model is constructed, in which agents of two types freely form 'firms' to produce a single good. We find that labor complementarity guarantees the existence of an elitist, efficient equilibrium and imparts a positive skewness to the income distributions. © 1991

Matching and a technology-induced skewness in income distributions

This paper examines a source of skewness in income distribution which is technology-based. A simple competitive matching model is constructed in which agents of two types freely from 'firms' to produce a single good. We derive explicit expressions relating the skewness in the income distributions to characteristics in the production function. It is found that labor input complementarity guarantees the existence of an elistist, efficient equilibrium and imparts a positive skewness to the income distributions, while concavity tends to skew the distributions the opposite way. An application to the problem of allocating scarce educational resources according to talent is studied. © 1992

Sociocultural differences in self-construal and subjective well-being: a test of four cultural models

In this study, the authors tested four cultural models—independence, interdependence, conflict, and integration—that describe the hypothesized relationships between dimensions of self-construal and components of subjective well-being among individualistic and collectivistic countries. Collectivistic countries that have undergone rapid socioeconomic changes (i.e., East Asian countries) and those with limited changes (i.e., African countries) were differentiated. Participants were 791 university students from four Western countries, 749 university students from three East Asian countries, and 443 university students from three African countries. Findings provided some support for the applicability of (a) the independence model to individuals from Western countries and (b) the integration model to individuals from East Asian countries. Mixed results were found among the African countries. The interdependence model is more applicable to African participants from the sub-Saharan region, but the integration model is more applicable to those from the North African region