Integration, social distress, and policy formation
Integration, social distress, and policy formation
dc.contributor.author | Stark, Oded | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-19T15:36:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-19T15:36:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 01.2012 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12217 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | de |
dc.format.extent | 12 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 162 | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Integration of regions | |
dc.subject | Merger of populations | |
dc.subject | Revision of social space | |
dc.subject | Aggregate relative deprivation | |
dc.subject | Social distress | |
dc.subject | Policy responses | |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie | |
dc.subject.ddc | 320 Politik | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | Integration, social distress, and policy formation | |
dc.type | Arbeitspapier | |
dc.publisher.name | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.relation.eissn | 1436-9931 | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zef_dp_162.pdf | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Zweitveröffentlichung | |
dc.version | publishedVersion |