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Can a deportation policy backfire?
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2019
Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the...
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The social preferences of the native inhabitants, and the decision how many asylum seekers to admit
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2019
We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139239
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On the precarious link between the Gini coefficient and the incentive to migrate
Stark, Oded; Byra, Łukasz; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020
of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of migration. Bearing in mind the substantial … literature that identifies relative deprivation as an important determinant of migration behavior, we study the relationship … between aggregate or total relative deprivation, TRD, the Gini coefficient, G, and migration. We show that for a given change …
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Risk-laden migration as a response to relative deprivation : a hypothesis
Stark, Oded - 2023
Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate …, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in migration, and the … level of risk involved in migration has been understood to reduce its attraction. Here we show a positive relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540558
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An optimal allocation of asylum seekers
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2024
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the...
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Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of nonmigrants when preferences are social
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2019
population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies the social space of the non …-migrants, we show why and how the non-migrants adjust their work effort and output in response to the migration-generated change in … their social space. When migration is negatively selective such that the least productive individual departs, the output of …
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