Integration, social distress, and policy formation

Arbeitspapier

I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people's social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy responses. Specifically, I view the merger of populations as a merger of income vectors; I measure social distress by aggregate relative deprivation; I demonstrate that a merger increases aggregate relative deprivation; and I show that a social planner is able to reverse this increase by means of least-cost, post-merger increases in individual incomes, but is unable to counter it by relying exclusively on a self-contained income redistribution that retains individual levels of wellbeing at their pre-merger levels.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 162

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; International Institutional Arrangements ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
• Thema: Integration of regions ; Merger of populations ; Revision of social space ; Aggregate relative deprivation ; Social distress ; Policy responses ; Politische Integration ; Bevölkerung ; Soziale Integration ; Einkommensverteilung ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Konsuminterdependenz ; Einkommenspolitik ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stark, Oded
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.22004/ag.econ.120179
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84808
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ