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On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
Stark, Oded - 2000
While the economic performance of migrants in the receiving country undoubtedly depends on qualifications, it is also affected by inclinations. Given the probability of return migration, we establish a behavioral link between the incentive of m igrants to save in their country of destination and...
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On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
Stark, Oded - In: Pacific economic review 7 (2002) 1, pp. 115-121
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On a variation in the economic performance of migrants by their home country's wage
Stark, Oded - 2000
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On the optimal duration of migration
Røed, Marianne - 1998
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Overlapping
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002
We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
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Migration under asymmetric information and human capital formation
Chau, Nancy H.; Stark, Oded - In: Review of international economics 7 (1999) 3, pp. 455-483
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Towards a theory of self-segregation as a response to relative deprivation : steady-state outcames and social welfare
Stark, Oded (contributor); Wang, You-qiang (contributor) - 2004
We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ two measures of relative deprivation. We show that in the case of each of these measures the process of deprivation-induced self-selection into groups reaches a steady state, and that the steady-state distribution differs...
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Migration under asymmetric information and human capital formation
Chau, Nancy H.; Stark, Oded - In: Economic growth and international trade, (pp. 97-125). 1999
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An evolutionary edge of knowing less : (or: on the "Curse" of global information)
Stark, Oded; Behrens, Doris - 2009
Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of engagement". A farmer's payoff is the sum of the payoffs from the two prisoner's dilemma games played with his two...
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A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2009
Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is … Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …. Letztendlich wird eine Wohlfahrtsanalyse durchgeführt, die das Niveau des Wohlergehens in einer offenen Volkswirtschaft mit dem in …
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