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On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
Stark, Oded - 2000
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On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
Stark, Oded - 2000
While the economic performance of migrants in the receiving country undoubtedly depends on qualifications, it is also affected by inclinations. Given the probability of return migration, we establish a behavioral link between the incentive of m igrants to save in their country of destination and...
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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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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 … Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …. Letztendlich wird eine Wohlfahrtsanalyse durchgeführt, die das Niveau des Wohlergehens in einer offenen Volkswirtschaft mit dem in …
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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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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
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Towards a theory of self-segregation as a response to relative deprivation : steady-state outcames and social welfare
Stark, Oded (contributor); Wang, You-qiang (contributor) - 2004
We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ two measures of relative deprivation. We show that in the case of each of these measures the process of deprivation-induced self-selection into groups reaches a steady state, and that the steady-state distribution differs...
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Overlapping
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002
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Employer sanctions : a policy with a pitfall?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021
This discussion paper investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's...
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On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
Stark, Oded; Casarico, Alessandra; Devillanova, Carlo; … - 2011
This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much human capital to acquire depends, among other things, on the migration...
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