Intergenerational conflict at US airlines: an unresolved Oedipal Complex?

Unresolved intergenerational issues.

An Empirical Analysis of Marketing Alliances between Major US Airlines

The paper proposes an empirical framework with endogenous ‡ight frequency and quantity decisions on an airline market. The framework is built around the hypothesis that passengers value not only the ticket price but also the cost of delay associated with an airline. At sample mean values, the cost of delay is estimated to account for 34% of the $280 full price of a seat on a ‡ight. Marketing al...

Intergenerational Solid aity and Conflict

Judging from certain mass media two representations of intergenerational relations between adult children and parents seem to emerge: They are either in a state of permanent unsolvable conflict, or they have as little contacts as possible. The cover of an issue of the German magazine "spiegel-Special" on generations is a good example of the first assumption. "Generations in Conflict" appears in...

Productivity? of US Airlines After Deregulation

In measuring productivity in the presence of undesirable outputs, traditional growth accounting and index number approaches face the problem that prices of the undesirable outputs typically do not exist since such outputs are generally not marketed. In this paper we employ an alternative measure of total factor productivity based on a generalization of the Shephard distance functions, namely wh...

From compassionate ageism to intergenerational conflict?

During the 50 years in which The Gerontologist has been publishing, the politics of aging in the United States has undergone distinct changes. The political behavior of older individuals has remained largely the same even though different birth cohorts have succeeded each other in populating the ranks of older people. But the politics of policies on aging-the organized interest and advocacy gro...