It focuses on the determination of the prices that induce these agents to act, including wages for labour and return rates of investment funds.

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This research builds upon
similar research conducted in 1996, 1999, and 2002.

PRESS RELEASE Richmond Fed 's Latest Economic Quarterly Features New Thoughts on Wage Inequality and Unemployment

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"The survey trends support the assertion that investors are interested in
socially responsible investment products," said Dr.)

* Knowing that a company is rated higher in terms of their social
performance would make 71 percent of Americans more likely to invest in
that company and 77 percent of Americans would purchase more of their
products and services. In 2000, Calvert created the Calvert Social Index, a benchmark for
measuring the performance of large, U.com. Richmond Fed Economist Yash P.

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Two-Thirds Think Socially Responsible Funds Are Helping to Boost
Product Safety; For First Time, Over Half of Non-SRI Mutual
Fund Investors Now Want Them

BETHESDA, Md. However, Senior Vice President and Director of
Research, John Weinberg and Region Focus Editor, Aaron Steelman, argue that
the main cause is skill-biased technical change.

In a related article:

Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations in the Matching Model: Inspecting the
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Violante (assistant professor of
economics, New York University ) review recent research on a widely used
search model of unemployment. They assert that oil price
increases have a negative effect on spending whereas oil price declines
have no effect: The estimated negative effect of an oil price increase on
spending is larger if one focuses on oil price increases occurring after a
period of stable oil prices (net oil price increases) or if spending
includes durables, the latter suggesting the possible negative influence of
energy prices on the purchase of big-ticket consumption goods.

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For more information on Calvert and its products and services, go to
http://www.richmondfed.

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These concerns cover issues of demand and supply, welfare and distribution .

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ABOUT CALVERT
Calvert serves more than 400,000 investors with over $11 billion in
assets.

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Reggie Stanley, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of
Calvert , said: "These survey results show that investors are encouraged by
the impact SRI has on business . For example, in 1996, tobacco was a major concern.

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S.calvert. Although technical change likely has increased wage inequality,
it also has greatly enhanced productivity and living standards in the
United States. While the search model accounts for the
qualitative features of unemployment and job-finding rates over the
business cycle, it is unable to account for the magnitudes of these
fluctuations . Petersen present evidence of a nonlinear relation
between oil price changes and consumer spending .

The Economic Quarterly contains economic analysis pertinent to Federal
Reserve monetary and banking policy.

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Hal Quinley, vice
president of The Segmentation Company, a division of Yankelovich .

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* Of the number of people who are not SRI investors, 54 percent are
interested in investing in them, increased significantly from 1999 (40
percent) and somewhat from 2002 (49 percent). This article first appeared in the Bank's 2004 Annual
Report.

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Calvert Survey: 55 Percent of Investors Think SRI Mutual Funds Help Keep Companies Honest Products Safer

And, for the
first time since Calvert has been gauging the views of investors, the survey
shows that over half (54 percent ) of investors not in socially responsible
investment (SRI) mutual funds now are interested in investing in them.
The Calvert survey, conducted by The Segmentation Company, a division of
Yankelovich , shows that more than half (55 percent) of Americans believe it is
very important that socially responsible mutual funds use their interaction
and investment practices to influence corporations to act more socially
responsible.

Microeconomics: The study of the behaviour of small economic units, such as individual consumers, households or companies.

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As to the results of such efforts, survey respondents indicated
that SRI mutual funds contribute the most to product safety (66 percent),
corporate honesty (60 percent), environmental safety (59 percent), generating
fairer wages for employees (55 percent); reducing sweat shop labor conditions
in Third World countries (52 percent); and making it more likely that women
and minorities will be hired and promoted (both at 51 percent). Today, corporate
integrity tops that list.

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, Most American investors think that
socially responsible mutual funds contribute to better corporate behavior by
keeping companies more honest and influencing them to make safer products,
according to a major new investor survey conducted by Calvert."
Other key Calvert survey findings include the following:

* More than half of Americans (52 percent) believe that SRI mutual funds
are at least somewhat successful at achieving goals such as induce
companies to make safer products, keep companies more honest, and make
it less likely that companies will engage in environmentally harmful
behavior. Calvert offers a full family of 32 equity, fixed income, and money
market mutual funds as well as separate account products for institutional
investors. Andreas Hornstein (Richmond Fed economist and vice president),
Per Krusell (economics professor, University of Rochester, and Richmond Fed
visiting scholar), and Giovanni L.

Also in the Summer 2005 issue:

Oil Prices and Consumer Spending .

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Some have argued that globalization -- in particular, increased
international trade and immigration -- is primarily responsible for changes
in the wage distribution. The authors conclude that when the basic search model is
calibrated to generate labor market volatility of a magnitude comparable
with the data, it has sharp counterfactual implications for the size and
the cyclicality of the wage share and for the elasticity of unemployment to
welfare benefits. Furthermore,
the estimated oil price coefficients in the consumption equation do not
show parameter instability during the 1980s when oil prices moved widely
for the first time in both directions.org/publications/economic_research /economic_quarterly/index.

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METHODOLOGY
The Calvert Group commissioned The Segmentation Company, a division of
Yankelovich, to conduct a study among mutual fund investors to determine their
awareness of and attitudes toward socially responsible investments, especially
with regard to socially responsible mutual funds.

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A total of 800 telephone
interviews were conducted in December 2006. Respondents in the random sample
were screened for the following criteria: primary decision -maker about
financial investments, or share decision-making equally; currently own at
least one stock or bond mutual fund; and have purchased mutual funds outside
of a 401(k) plan or other employer -sponsored retirement plan. Workers with relatively
high skill levels have experienced more rapid growth in wages than
less-skilled workers, some of whom have seen an actual decline in their
real wages. For free copies, contact the Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond's Public Affairs office at (804) 697-7982 or visit
http://www.

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Furthermore, investors understand that through
investment in SRI, they themselves can have an impact on corporate behavior. (Please see full survey
report for discussion of the sample sizes for the 1999 and 2002 findings
on this question.

* Over half of the respondents (55 percent) indicate they
strongly/somewhat agree that socially responsible companies carry less
risk, and 52 percent agree that they deliver better returns .

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Mehra and
Research Associate Jon D.

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"Trends
also show us that a shift has occurred in the social issues investors care
about. The margin of
error for the main sample is plus or minus 3.-based socially responsible companies.
What's Driving Wage Inequality? Wage
inequality has increased sharply in the United States since the mid-1970s.