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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 unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
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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 unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238652
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 unhappiness in the constituent societies when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127070
Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be … better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration … in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220998
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Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be … better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration … in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504504
By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...
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How can parents secure old-age support in the form of care, attention or financial transfers from their children? We explore the enforcement of implicit intergenerational agreements from a fresh angle by studying the possibility that the child's conduct is conditioned by the parents' example....
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Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be … better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration … in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market equilibrium. This facilitates identification of several novel and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552797
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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