disutility

It must be noted that no value is being given to the disutility of work in itself.

The power of legal fear is matched only by its disutility.

Work provides disutility that must be compensated for by paying wages.

Schedule delay can be measured as a utility (or, rather, a disutility).

The general level of wages exceeded the marginal disutility of employment.

In this model, patient age and disutility associated with chemotherapy were important considerations in adjuvant treatment decisions.

Regrettables is an economic term to describe goods or services that do not add to utility themselves, but rather abate disutility.

The first two variants of the model imply that their marginal disutility of leisure is very high after the first period.

To work involves disutility."

The usefulness of spanning the market appears to be limited (or, equivalently, the disutility of incomplete markets is not great).

This approach estimates the construction cost of the improvements, as if new, and deducts factors for depreciation, disutility, and external obsolescence.

Let D(L) be disutility from working, an increasing convex function with respect to L.

If this is not true, then there is no longer any reason to expect a tendency towards equality between the real wage and the marginal disutility of labour.

It is normally posited that the marginal disutility of employment is an increasing function of the actual level of employment.

Longtime Ars readers may be familiar with my periodic rants about the increasing disutility of the "volume/directory/file" metaphor for modern networked machines.

It is good to listen to something besides external diseconomies or the cross-subsidies of interlocked transport, or the marginal disutility of heavy highway lorries."

The Small model of scheduling has the disutility of schedule delay decrease linearly towards zero as the actual arrival (or departure) time approaches the desired time.

In terms of modern orthodox terminology it is important to note that "labor", at least in Smith's approach, is defined as the opposite of utility - "disutility", pain, toil etc.

If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment.

In such a case, the disutility of a monetary loss could be outweighed by the combined expected utility of monetary and non-monetary gain, thus making the purchase a rational decision for that individual.

Buddhist Economists believe that as long as work is considered a disutility for labourers and labourers a necessary evil for employers, true potential of the labourers and employers cannot be achieved.

At C and, two marginal conditions fail to be satisfied: the real wage rate is neither a measure of the marginal disutility of employment nor a measure of the marginal physical product of labour.

He set the utilitarian foundations for highly progressive taxation, arguing that the optimal distribution of taxes should be such that 'the marginal disutility incurred by each taxpayer should be the same' (Edgeworth, 1897).

For as long as the marginal disutility of inflation remains positive, there will eventually come a point at which the government will be compelled to pursue policies which will push the unemployment rate back towards its natural value.