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Why would some migrants choose to engage in degrading work?

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011

This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two "bads" that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two "bads"...

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Optimal carbon tax with a dirty backstop : oil, coal, or renewables?

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Withagen, Cees - 2011

Optimal climate policy is studied. Coal, the abundant resource, contributes more CO2 per unit of energy than the exhaustible resource, oil. We characterize the optimal sequencing oil and coal and departures from the Herfindahl rule. "Preference reversal" can take place. If coal is very dirty...

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Fiscal policy and Dutch disease

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2011

In this paper we revisit the Dutch disease paying particular attention to the role of specific factors of production and capital stock dynamics. The main insight is that if the natural resource rich windfall is substantial but not large enough for the country to become a rentier, capital goods...

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Community Enterprises : an institutional innovation

Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - 2011

Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce … organizational theory, innovation economics, and industrial organization should therefore be critically examined. -- theory of the … firm ; organization theory ; for-profit firms ; community enterprise ; Wikipedia …

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Academics appreciate awards : a new aspect of incentives in research

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2009

This paper analyzes awards as a means of motivation prevalent in the scientific community, but so far neglected in the economic literature on incentives, and discusses their relationship to monetary compensation. Awards are better suited than performance pay to reward scientific tasks, which are...

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Surviving the Titanic disaster : economic, natural and social determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...

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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare

Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011

This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...

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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say

Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - 2011

This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...

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A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism

Stark, Oded; Kobus, Martyna; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling behind the incomes of others, the optimal income distribution under...

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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