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What is an appropriate welfare measure for efficiency of local public policies inducing migration?

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  • Kono, Tatsuhito
  • Kishi, Akio

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We demonstrate what welfare measure should be used for local public policies inducing migration. We show that the two conventional definitions of welfare measures having equivalency with compensation testing in a single-location economy without externalities have inconsistencies with compensation testing in a spatial economy: one definition has no equivalency with compensation testing even without externalities, and the other definition has difficulties arising from a problem in which the measure before a project has a non-zero value. Finally, we demonstrate that a specific welfare measure defined by Wheaton (1977) has appropriate properties with compensation testing in both cases with and without externalities.

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  • Kono, Tatsuhito & Kishi, Akio, 2018. "What is an appropriate welfare measure for efficiency of local public policies inducing migration?," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 25-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:91:y:2018:i:c:p:25-35
    DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2017.11.001
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