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On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
Stark, Oded - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843161
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The Social Preferences of the Native Inhabitants, and the Decision How Many Asylum Seekers to Admit
Stark, Oded - 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/10012858484
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Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
Stark, Oded - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863368
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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 …
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