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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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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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Policy responses to a dark side of the integration of regions and nations

Stark, Oded - 2012

In this paper I study policy responses to an increase in post-merger distress. I consider the integration of regions and nations as a merger of populations which I view as a revision of social space, and I identify the effect of the merger on aggregate distress. The paper is based on the premise...

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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness

Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when...

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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011

This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of...

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Integration, social distress, and policy formation

Stark, Oded - 2012

I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people's social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy responses. Specifically, I view the merger of...

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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015

Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...

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How inheriting affects bequest plans

Stark, Oded; Nicinska, Anna - 2015

We present and test the idea that bequest planning is linked with the experience of inheriting. We consider "a family tradition of bequeathing" as a channel through which the intention to bequeath is molded by and is positively correlated with the experience of inheriting. We use data from the...

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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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Stressful integration

Stark, Oded - 2013

This paper considers the integration of economies as a merger of populations. The premise is that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. The paper identifies the effect of the merger on aggregate distress. A merger is shown to increase aggregate...

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