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A Theory of Migration as a Response to Occupational Stigma

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2009

Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is … is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between two identical … economies. Hence, a new model of migration is presented in which migration arises from a wish to reap social exposure gains. The …

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2013

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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Reasons for Remitting

Stark, Oded - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2009

of migration on economic development in the migrants’ own countries. The collage of reasons presented serves to …

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On the economics of others

Stark, Oded - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2014

We relate to others in two important ways: we care about others, and we care about how we fare in comparison to others. In some contexts, these two forms of relatedness interact. Caring about others can conveniently be labeled altruism. Caring about how we fare in comparison with others who fare...

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International migration, human capital formation, and saving

Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2013

In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save.

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Income redistribution going awry: The reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation

Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2012

We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals’ preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...

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The new economics of the brain drain

Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …

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Global integration and world migration

Stark, Oded - 2017

strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …

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Human capital formation, asymmetric information, and the dynamics of international migration

Stark, Oded; Chau, Nancy H. - 1998

We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We … point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure … several interesting results. First, while migration is pursued by the relatively high-skilled, subsequent return migrants are …

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Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration: A blessing in a 'curse'?

Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; Prskawetz, Alexia - 1998

capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration (a form of brain drain), other workers … stay at home with more human capital than they would have formed in the absence of the possibility of migration (a form of …

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