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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two … societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of … marriages are formed such that the number of households in the merged society is equal to the number of individuals in one of …
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Journal of evolutionary economics : JEE 22 (2012) 2, pp. 331-344
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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990892
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The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two … societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of … marriages are formed such that the number of households in the merged society is equal to the number of individuals in one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238652
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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - In: Journal of labor economics 29 (2011) 2, pp. 349-375
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On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device
Stark, Oded (contributor); Behrens, Doris (contributor);  … - 2008
In a haystack-type representation of a heterogeneous population that is evolving according to a payoff structure of a prisoner’s dilemma game, migration is modeled as a process of “swapping” individuals between heterogeneous groups of constant size after a random allocation fills the...
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The Merger of Populations, the Incidence of Marriages, and Aggregate Unhappiness
Stark, Oded; Rendl, Franz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two … societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of … marriages are formed such that the number of households in the merged society is equal to the number of individuals in one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179243
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[Rezension von: Market capitalism and moral values, ed. by Samuel Brittan ..]
Stark, Oded - In: Journal of economic literature 34 (1996) 4, pp. 1942-1943
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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests
Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2001
We study the joint role of altruism and impatience, and the impact of evolution in the formation of long-term time preferences and in the determination of optimal consumption and optimal bequests. We show how the consumption paths of dynasties relate to altruism and to impatience, and we reason...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011578809
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Dynasties and destiny : on the roles of altruism and impatience in the evolution of consumption and bequests
Stark, Oded; Falk, Ita - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001583851