A note on modelling labour migration in LDCs |
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Authors: | Oded Stark |
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Affiliation: | 1. Bar‐Han University , Ramat‐Gan;2. Harvard University , Cambridge, Masssachusetts |
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Abstract: | Taking the family as the rural‐to‐urban migration decision‐making unit, will the ‘expected‐income migration model’ accurately predict the level of migration? Consideration of two variables ‐ desire for leisure, and a version to risk ‐ serves to show that the expected‐income model yields a systematic downward bias in the predicted level of rural‐to‐urban migration. Likely policy implications emanating from the incorporation of these variables in the migration decision are indicated. |
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