Migration when social preferences are ordinal: Steady-state population distribution, and social welfare

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This paper adds three dimensions to the received literature: it models migration when the individuals' preferences regarding their relative income are ordinal, it works out the resulting spatial steady-state distribution of the individuals, and it shows that the aggregate of the individuals' migration choices in the spatial steady-state distribution sums up to the social optimum. This finding does not apply when the individuals' preferences regarding their relative income are cardinal. We highlight the importance of the assumption about the nature of the individuals' social preferences (whether ordinal or cardinal) to studying and predicting their migration behavior, and to elucidating the consequences of that behavior for social welfare.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 98

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis ; Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium ; General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: General ; Welfare Economics: General ; Externalities ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Ordinal preferences ; Distaste for low relative income ; An ordinal measure of income relative deprivation ; Interregional migration ; Steady-state spatial distribution ; Social Welfare

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stark, Oded
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
• (where): Tübingen
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15496/publikation-17600
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/162139
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-761989
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET