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Integration, social distress, and policy formation

Oded Stark

No 25, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics from University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics

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.

Keywords: integration of regions; merger of populations; revision of social space; aggregate relative deprivation; social distress; policy responses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D04 D63 F55 H53 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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