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The dynamics of international migration: Introduction
Stark, Oded - In: International Review of Economics and Finance 28 (2013), pp. 1-2
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 migration is gradual; by studying the impact of such formation on economic … growth and welfare; by working out the consequences of the migration of parents for the wellbeing of their children; by …
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset, and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 1-7
A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: “established” migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2012
A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2013
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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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326706
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309611
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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset and endogenous dynamics
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2012
A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323672
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On the Economics of Others
Stark, Oded - In: Ekonomista (2013) 5, pp. 709-715
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583806
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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...
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On the economics of others
Stark, Oded - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369089