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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban...

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Gauging the potential for social unrest

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Behrens, Doris - 2009

It stands to reason that social unrest does not erupt out of the blue. Although there are a great many reasons why social dismay might descend into social disorder, only few yardsticks or indices can plausibly be used to gauge the potential for social unrest (PSU). If policy makers want to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879164

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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The analytics of seasonal migration

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

A framework that yields different possible patterns of migration as optimal solution to a simple utility maximization problem is presented and explored. It is shown that seasonal migration arises as an optimal endogenous response to a comparison of costs (of living and of separation) and returns...

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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem

Stark, Oded - 2010

The naturalization of asylum seekers is modeled as an economic problem. In choosing their level of investment in host-country-specific human capital, asylum seekers take into consideration the probability of their being naturalized. The government of the host country chooses the probability of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971093

The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011

An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky...

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Policy repercussions of "The new economics of the Brain Drain"

Stark, Oded - 2010

In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on "The New Economics of the Brain Drain". In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new policy implications. In sections 2 through 5, I present the policy...

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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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