Social Optimum Under Moving Cost: Some Further Results

This note demonstrates that the problem of aggregation in modeling individual migration behavior as a response to fiscal and nonfiscal factors is not concomitant with moving costs. On the other hand, it depends on the specification of the utility function with moving costs. An additively separable utility function is specified to devise some implications with regard to social optimum.

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Year of publication:	1993
Authors:	Narayana, M. R.
Published in:	Indian Economic Review. - Department of Economics. - Vol. 28.1993, July, 2, p. 229-234
Publisher:	Department of Economics

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D60 - Welfare Economics. General ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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