Integration, Social Distress, and Policy Formation

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URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-59836
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/47888
Dokumentart: WorkingPaper
Date: 2012
Source: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 25
Language: English
Faculty: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Department: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC Classifikation: 330 - Economics
Keywords: Integration
Other Keywords:
Integration of regions , Merger of populations , Revision of social space , Aggregate relative deprivation , Social distress , Policy responses
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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.

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