Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Arbeitspapier

We provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, and the incentive to migrate. We show that a higher total relative deprivation of a population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in migration for a given level of a population's income; that total relative deprivation is positively related to the Gini coefficient; and that, consequently, the Gini coefficient and migration are positively correlated, holding the population's income constant.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series ; No. 178

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Sociology of Economics ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; International Migration ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Thema: income inequality ; relative deprivation ; the Gini coefficient ; the incentive to migrate ; Einkommensverteilung ; Gini-Koeffizient ; Migrationstheorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stark, Oded
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)
• (wo): Vienna
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72257
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ