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Relative deprivation and migration : theory, evidence, and policy implications

Stark, Oded; Taylor, J. Edward - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1991

The authors examine the importance of absolute income and relative deprivation incentives for internal and international migration in developing country households. Empirical results, based on Mexican village data, support the hypothesis that households'relative deprivation in the village...

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"Gauging the Potential for Social Unrest"

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Behrens, Doris A. - 2010

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...

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Looking at the Integration of Nations through the Lens of the Merger of Populations: Preliminary Superadditivity and Impossibility Results

Stark, Oded - 2010

This paper looks at the integration of regions and nations through the prism of the merger of populations. The paper employs a particular index of social dismay. It presents examples of two of the main results arising from the study of the merger of two populations: that the social dismay of an...

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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

social stress by reducing income inequality, which is typically measured by the Gini coefficient. Decomposing the coefficient …

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Measuring Income Inequality in Social Networks

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2023

We present a new index for measuring income inequality in networks. The index is based on income comparisons made by …

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Measuring income inequality in social networks

Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2023

We present a new index for measuring income inequality in networks. The index is based on income comparisons made by …

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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

social stress by reducing income inequality, which is typically measured by the Gini coefficient. Decomposing the coefficient …

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

Stark, Oded; Sorger, Gerhard - 2012

inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively … that gives rise to this perverse effect of a transfer on inequality is a non-empty open subset of all preference profiles …

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Stressful integration

Stark, Oded - 2013

This paper considers the integration of economies as a merger of populations. The premise is that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. The paper identifies the effect of the merger on aggregate distress. A merger is shown to increase aggregate...

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A Note on Sen's Representation of the Gini Coefficient: Revision and Repercussions

Stark, Oded - 2024

Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. "In any pair … measure of inequality defined on the unit interval is to accord 0 to perfect equality (maximal equality) and 1 to perfect … inequality (maximal inequality). In this note we show that when the Gini coefficient is elicited from a neat measure of the …

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