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Inducing human capital formation : migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
capital. Yet a strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country, by raising both the level of human capital … migration policy the welfare of all workers is higher than in the absence of this policy. -- migration ; human capital formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725024
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Migration dynamics
Stark, Oded; Wang, You-qiang - 2002
dynamics of migration. -- migration dynamics ; migrants' transfers ; follow-up migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725495
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On the economics of refugee flows
Stark, Oded - 2003
Although the phenomenon of refugee flows is not devoid of economic connotations, it has so far been investigated primarily by political scientists and sociologists. The analytical tools of economic inquiry have not yet been applied to this subject, although it stands to reason that such a study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726807
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Inequality and migration : a behavioral link
Stark, Oded - 2005
population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in migration for a given level of a population’s income; that total relative … deprivation is positively related to the Gini coefficient; and that, consequently, the Gini coefficient and migration are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730394
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2010
A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733804