TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stark, Oded
AU  - Budzinski, Wiktor
        TI  - Repercussions of Negatively Selective Migration for the Behavior of Nonmigrants When Preferences Are Social
        PY  - 2019/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12283
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12283
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - per capita output
KW  - social preferences
KW  - distaste for low relative income
KW  - work effort
KW  - migration
        ER  -