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The Migration Response to Deprivation Aversion

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  • Oded Stark
  • You Qiang Wang

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We model migration as a response to relative deprivation. We present a specific configuration of incomes in which the process of migration in response to relative deprivation reaches a steady state. However, for the general configuration of incomes we show that it is impossible to prove the existence of a steady state. We study the social welfare implications of the two cases and show that if individuals are left to pursue their betterment, the resulting state falls short of the best social outcome. We present several implications of the model including federalism and the demand for secession.
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  • Oded Stark & You Qiang Wang, 1998. "The Migration Response to Deprivation Aversion," Departmental Working Papers _100, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Economics.
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    2. Stark, Oded, 2006. "Inequality and migration: A behavioral link," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 91(1), pages 146-152, April.
    3. Calderón Villarreal Cuauhtémoc & Huesca Reynoso Luis, 2014. "Profile of earners and remittances in Mexico: a relative deprivation approach," Contaduría y Administración, Accounting and Management, vol. 59(3), pages 11-33, julio-sep.
    4. Sakketa, T.G., 2018. "Relative Deprivation in Income, Assets, and Social Capital: Motivational and Deterrent Impacts on the Well-Being of Rural Youth," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277116, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    5. Stark, Oded, 2003. "Tales of Migration without Wage Differentials: Individual, Family, and Community Contexts," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, issue 2, pages 79-92.
    6. Nicola Daniele Coniglio & Vitorocco Peragine & Davide Vurchio, 2023. "International migration and income inequality," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2023-41, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    16. Hyll, Walter & Schneider, Lutz, 2014. "Relative deprivation and migration preferences," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 122(2), pages 334-337.

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