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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295537
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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308339
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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling trade” as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292931
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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade : 2nd ed.
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020 - 2nd corrected edition
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling trade” as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292932
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An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa; Kohler, Wilhelm; … - 2018
Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are overtaken by losses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857978
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An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa; Kohler, Wilhelm; … - 2018
Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are overtaken by losses of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847822
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Overlapping
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002
We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577711
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002538671
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869591
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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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