title: Labour migration as a response to relative deprivation.
abstract: The relationship between labor migration and relative deprivation is examined.  "We model migration from one reference group to another as a response to relative deprivation and satisfaction:  We say that a strong incentive to migrate exists if relative deprivation decreases while satisfaction rises with migration and that a weak incentive exists if the individual increases or decreases his satisfaction and deprivation at the same time by migrating.  We derive conditions under which different incentives, weak or strong, hold for different individuals.... Our analysis enables us to explain several perplexing migratory phenomena, identify income inequality as a distinct explanatory variable of migration and establish an incentive to migrate in situations where the utility-social welfare approach does not."
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007182:Income; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Behavior; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Income; Inequalities; Labor Migration; Mathematical Model; Migration--determinants; Models, Theoretical; Motivation; Population; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; World