"marginal disutility of" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in economics and refers to the decrease in satisfaction or usefulness that a person experiences with each additional unit of a good or service consumed. It is the opposite of "marginal utility," which refers to the increase in satisfaction from consuming one additional unit. Example: As the price of bananas increases, the marginal disutility of buying more bananas also increases, leading consumers to purchase fewer of them.
Our results are consistent with and extend previous findings in the literature: passenger density has a significant effect on the utility of travelling by public transport; in fact, the marginal disutility of travel time in a crowded vehicle (6 standing-passengers/m2) is 2.5 times higher than in a vehicle with available seats.
Therefore, the marginal disutility of working hours is greater for women than for men.9 Unemployed workers receive a utility flow b.
Note that γ is the marginal disutility of payment, which can be interpreted as the marginal utility of the income of a representative consumer.
The wage rate exactly compensates for the farmer's constant marginal disutility of effort, so that his reservation utility when he does not supply effort is zero.
In the context of choice modelling willingness-to-pay may be estimated as the ratio of the marginal utility of one attribute and the negative marginal disutility of price.
Eq. (19) implies that the piece rate is set equal to the output price in Period 2. Thus, in equilibrium, the marginal revenue of effort from the viewpoint of a firm (p2), the marginal disutility of effort e 2 ∗, and the marginal cost of effort from the viewpoint of a firm b 2 ∗ p 2 are set to be equal.
The group of young and highly educated respondents was less inequity averse with the least marginal disutility to another's disadvantage than other sectors of population included in the study [ 29].
The carbon price should be determined as the sum of the marginal disutility from the global warming of two countries with partnership.
This remuneration scheme is a source of marginal disutility at the mean but is positively valued by 22% and 244 % of physicians (in MN1 and MN2, respectively).
This is the modified Samuelson (1954) rule concerning the optimal public good (bad) provision: The marginal benefit accrued from the country's emissions αF ' (e*) should be equalized to the sum of the marginal disutility diffused all over the world, n ∂ ψ ∂ c 1 d | ϵ j l * = 1 n.
Utility functions spanning the gain and loss domain are "kinked" at the reference point [ 40], therefore the marginal disutility would not be the mirror image of the marginal utility.
