Arbeitspapier

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

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 231

Klassifikation
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
Thema
ordinal preferences
distaste for low relative income
an ordinal measure of income relative deprivation
interregional migration
steady state spatial distribution
social welfare

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Stark, Oded
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Stark, Oded
  • University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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