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Record 1 2010-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
DEF

Engel's Law, named after the nineteenth century statistician E. Engel, postulates a declining share of food in household expenditure as income rise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía
DEF

Ley que expresa la relación entre el nivel de renta y los gastos; de modo que los destinados a alimentación constituyen una parte tanto mayor cuanto menor sea la renta.

OBS

Creada en 1857 por Ernst Engel, director entonces de la Oficina Estadística de Prusia.

CONT

En sus investigaciones [...], Ernst Engel [...] calculó que para una renta familiar de 800 a 1.000 marcos, el gasto en alimentos era de 64 por 100; en tanto que para un nivel entre 2.400 y 3.000 marcos, se situaba en el 59,90 por 100.

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