%0 Report
        %A Stark, Oded
%A Budzinski, Wiktor
        %T Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12283
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12283
        %X 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.
        %K per capita output
%K social preferences
%K distaste for low relative income
%K work effort
%K migration