Household's Optimal Consumption by age of reference person and occupation

가구주 연령과 직업에 따른 가계의 적정소비선

  • Yang, Yon-Sun (Dept. of Home Management Hanyang University Master) ;
  • Im, Jeong-Bin (Dept. of Home Management Hanyang University Prof.)
  • 양연선 (한양대학교 가정관리학과 석사) ;
  • 임정빈 (한양대학교 가정관리학과)
  • Published : 2000.09.01

Abstract

This research was tried to understand the income, consumption expenditure with the family lifecycle stage of urban workers and on the basis of this to pull out the optimal consumption line and to provide the basic data for long term management of household finance. As a whole, it ti revealed that real consumption both in the period of establishment and reduction is lower than optimal consumption, whereas real consumption in the extension period is far higher than the optimal consumption in the same period. The reason amy come from that the educational expenditure of children in the middle age reaches the climax and in addition household in the same time tends to add the marriage costs supporting his children.

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