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A back-door brain drain
(2012-04)In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from ... -
A bitter choice turned sweet: How acknowledging individuals’ concern at having a low relative income serves to align utilitarianism and egalitarianism
(2015-03)When individuals’ utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low relative income (the weights attached to income and to the concern at having a low relative income sum up to one), the ... -
A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
(2017-09)We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order <em>p</em> . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive ... -
A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
(2011-10)A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling ... -
A critical comparison of migration policies: Entry fee versus quota
(2017-07)We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country’s workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We ... -
A gain with a drain?: Evidence from rural Mexico on the new economics of the brain drain
(2005-10)Evidence is presented in support of the “brain gain” view that the likelihood of migrating to a destination wherein the returns to human capital (schooling) are high creates incentives to acquire human capital in migrant-sending ... -
A generic model for analyzing nexus issues of households’ bioenergy use
(2016-01)Bioenergy is a major source of energy in developing countries. However, increasing demand for agricultural commodities can lead to a stronger competition for natural resources with the bioenergy production. The nexus among ... -
A geopolitical gem: How Greenland can be a test case for a more ambitious EU
(2023)Mit der Eröffnung eines diplomatischen Büros in Grönland unternimmt die EU Schritte, um ihre Arktis-Strategie in die Praxis umzusetzen. Der Inselstaat wird ein Akteur des 21. Jahrhunderts in den Bereichen Nordpol-Logistik, ... -
A journey through the history of commodity derivatives markets and the political economy of (de)regulation
(2018-12)The present study examines the dynamics and regulatory regimes of commodity derivatives markets through time. The historical perspective allows to identify the reasons behind the use of derivatives and the impact of changing ... -
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions
(2024-02)Sen (1973 and 1997) presents the Gini coefficient of income inequality in a population as follows. “In any pair-wise comparison the man with the lower income can be thought to be suffering from some depression on finding ... -
A policy response to a downside of the integration of economies: An impossibility theorem
(2014-05)Recent research shows that the merger of economies increases aggregate stress. This paper shows that there is no income distribution policy which will ensure that the wellbeing of the individuals belonging to merging ... -
A Post‐Area Studies Approach to the Study of Hill Irrigation across the Alai – Pamir – Karakoram – Himalaya
(2012-06)Due to the geo-political history of the mountainous region stretching from the Alai in the south of Kyrgyzstan to the north-western Himalaya of India, language barriers, and also perhaps the nature of traditional area ... -
A pure theory of population distribution when preferences are ordinal
(2023-01)We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this ... -
A reluctance to assimilate
(2006-10)Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to ... -
A roller coaster ride: an empirical investigation of the main drivers of wheat price
(2013-02)Over the last decade, commodity prices have registered substantial booms and busts marked by extreme volatility. Wheat in particular, one of the main non-oil commodities, has registered a roller-coaster in price levels ... -
A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s measures of inequality and social welfare
(2021-09)The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen’s 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it ... -
The access and welfare impacts of telecommunications technology in Peru
(2000-06)This paper attempts to assess three main issues on Peruvian telecommunications technology: what are the main variables that explain the demand for access to telephone services; how important is access to telephone services ... -
Accountability in the parliament of Malaysia: A study on interruptions by the Chairperson in the Dewan Rakyat
(2021-09-03)The election of the chairman of the House of Representatives, a chamber of the Malaysian parliament, has always been determined by the ruling party. The centralization of executive power has also absorbed the function of ...
