The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices: The evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution

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This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to relocate if, as a result, their relative deprivation will be reduced, holding their incomes constant. Conditions are provided under which the associated dynamics reaches a spatial steady state, the number of periods it takes to reach a steady state is specified, and light is shed on the robustness of the steady state outcome. By way of simulation it is shown that for large populations, a steady state of the relocation dynamics is almost always reached, typically in one period, and that cycles are more likely to occur when the populations' income distributions are more equal.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 276

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium ; Computational Techniques; Simulation Modeling ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Thema: Social preferences ; Distaste for low relative income ; A cardinal measure of income relative deprivation ; Interregional locational choices ; Relocation dynamics ; Steady-state spatial distribution

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stark, Oded ; Budzinski, Wiktor ; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2019

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204642
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ