Browsing Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen by Classification (DDC) "ddc:330"
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The 2007-2013 European cohesion policy: A new strategic approach by the Commission?
Schröder, Sonja (2008) -
A back-door brain drain
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz (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
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna (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
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk (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 critical comparison of migration policies: Entry fee versus quota
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; Uebelmesser, Silke (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 generic model for analyzing nexus issues of households’ bioenergy use
Djanibekov, Utkur; Finger, Robert; Guta, Dawit Diriba; Gaur, Varun; Mirzabaev, Alisher (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 journey through the history of commodity derivatives markets and the political economy of (de)regulation
Algieri, Bernardina (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
Stark, Oded (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
Stark, Oded (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 pure theory of population distribution when preferences are ordinal
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz (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 roller coaster ride: an empirical investigation of the main drivers of wheat price
Algieri, Bernardina (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
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor (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 ... -
Agglomeration, pollution, and migration: A substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon (2022-12)We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium ... -
Agricultural commodity prices, governance, and land supply in the Tropics
Miranda, Javier; Börner, Jan (2023-04)Sustainable use of land resources is at the core of the bioeconomy, and it is of central importance for development in the coming decades. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals reflect this aspect of development ... -
Agricultural Credit System in India: Evolution, Effectiveness and Innovations
Gulati, Ashok; Juneja, Ritika (2019-09)Indian agriculture is dominated by smallholders. With an average holding size of just 1.08 ha (in 2015-16), and 86 percent of holdings being of less than 2 ha size, Indian agriculture produces sufficient food, feed, and ... -
Agricultural Innovations at the Technological Frontier in India
Baraké, Evelyn; Ganguly, Kavery; Gulati, Ashok; von Braun, Joachim (2017-07)Innovations in agriculture hold the key to unlocking sustainable, inclusive growth potential while securing employment opportunities for young people. In India, this has given rise to a new generation of entrepreneurs and ... -
Améliorer les perspectives d'emploi pour la jeunesse rurale d'afrique: Exploiter le pontentiel du secteur agricole pour la creation d’emploi à long terme
Buma Dema, Rudolf; von Braun, Joachim; Kofol, Chiara (2017-11)La prévalence d’emplois vulnérables constitue le principal défi du marché du travail dans les zones rurales. L’organisation Internationale du travail estime que parmi les jeunes travailleurs de l’Afrique subsaharienne ... -
An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer: A relative deprivation approach
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz; Jakubek, Marcin (2017-09)A transfer from a richer individual to a poorer one seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show ... -
An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa; Kohler, Wilhelm; Szczygielski, Krzysztof (2018-05)Acknowledging individuals’ distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling ... -
An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz (2020-11)Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling ...