Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Non-Migrants when Preferences Are Social

Oded Stark and Wiktor Budzinski

JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, vol. 85, issue 2, 165-179

Abstract: We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies the social space of the non-migrants, we show why and how the non-migrants adjust their work effort and output in response to the migration-generated change in their social space. When migration is negatively selective such that the least productive individual departs, the output of the non-migrants increases. While as a consequence of this migration statically calculated average productivity rises, we identify a dynamic repercussion that compounds the static one.

Keywords: Social preferences; Distaste for low relative income; Work effort; Per capita output; Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D31 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06-01
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Working Paper: Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Non-migrants when Preferences are Social (2019)
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