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dc.contributor.authorStark, Odeden
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-14-
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-14T15:51:57Z-
dc.date.available2012-02-14T15:51:57Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-60360en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/55270-
dc.description.abstractIn his paper I study policy responses to an increase in post-merger distress. I consider the integration of regions as a merger of populations which I view as a revision of social space, and I identify the effect of the merger on aggregate distress. The paper is based on the premise that the merger of groups of people alters their social landscape and their comparators. Employing a specific measure of social distress that is based on the sensing of relative deprivation, a merger increases aggregate distress: the social distress of a merged population is greater than the sum of the social distress of the constituent populations when apart. In response, policies are enacted to ensure that aggregate distress and/or that of individuals does not rise after a merger. I consider two publicly-financed, cost-effective policies designed so as not to reduce individuals' incomes: a policy that reverses the negative effect of the merger on the aggregate level of relative deprivation, bringing it back to the sum of the pre-merger levels of aggregate relative deprivation of the two populations when apart; and a policy that is aimed at retaining the relative deprivation of each individual at most at its pre-merger level. These two policies are developed as algorithms. Numerical examples illustrate the application of the algorithms.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences |cTübingenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aUniversity of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance |x28en
dc.subject.jelD04en
dc.subject.jelD63en
dc.subject.jelF55en
dc.subject.jelH53en
dc.subject.jelP51en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordmerger of populationsen
dc.subject.keywordrevision of social spaceen
dc.subject.keywordaggregate relative deprivationen
dc.subject.keywordsocietal distressen
dc.subject.keywordpolicy responsesen
dc.titlePolicy responses to a dark side of the integration of regions-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn685296865en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:tuewef:28en

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