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Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Stark, Oded - 2005

We provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, and the incentive to migrate. We show that a higher total relative deprivation of a population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in...

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Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Stark, Oded - 2005

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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2012

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to …

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Remittances, exchange rates and the labor supply of Mexican Migrants in the U.S.

Fox, Marc; Stark, Oded - 1987

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their … family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits … in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a given real volume of remittances back to the family in the sending …

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Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2012

Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310504

Migration in LDCs: Risk, Remittances, and the Family

Stark, Oded - In: Finance and Development 28 (1991) 4, pp. 39-41

Labor votes with its feet-individuals migrate from areas of low wages to areas of higher wages. That has been the traditional view, one that has spawned much policy advice to control migration and to affect the location decisions of migrant laborers. But recent research indicates that portfolio...

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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction

Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2

This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...

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Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation : Steady-State Outcomes and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded; Wang, You Qiang - 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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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...

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"Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries:" A Methodological Comment

Stark, Oded - 2023

Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to reduce [income] inequalities and [thereby] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of...

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