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An evolutionary edge of knowing less : (or: on the "Curse" of global information)

Stark, Oded; Behrens, Doris - 2009

Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of engagement". A farmer's payoff is the sum of the payoffs from the two prisoner's dilemma games played with his two...

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Gauging the potential for social unrest

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Behrens, Doris - 2009

It stands to reason that social unrest does not erupt out of the blue. Although there are a great many reasons why social dismay might descend into social disorder, only few yardsticks or indices can plausibly be used to gauge the potential for social unrest (PSU). If policy makers want to...

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On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device

Stark, Oded (contributor); Behrens, Doris (contributor); … - 2008

In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner's dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of swappingʺ individuals between heterogeneous groups of constant size after a random allocation fills the haystacks,...

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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2009

Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is … extended from a closed, single economy to an open economy setting in a world that consists of two countries or two regions. It … Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …

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Comparing the global and merged with the local and separate : on a downside to the integration of regions and nations

Stark, Oded - 2015

This paper looks at the integration of regions and nations through the prism of the merger of populations (societies). The paper employs a particular index of social stress. Stylized examples of the merging of two populations suggest that with integration, the social stress index will increase....

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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : on the relative risk aversion of single men and single women

Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2015

We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...

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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices : the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019

This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...

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Behavior in reverse : reasons for return migration

Stark, Oded - 2018

Received research shows numerous motives for migration, but fewer reasons for return migration. This paper aims to correct this imbalance. Twelve reasons for return migration are presented and discussed briefly. The reasons listed are derived from research on migration conducted by the author in...

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A critical comparison of migration policies : entry fee versus quota

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; … - 2017

We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two policies under the assumptions that individuals are...

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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017

We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...

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