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Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
Land-Stadt-Migration, Humankapital und Agglomeration
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Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon
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| Abstract | A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban dwellers in equilibrium. Various measures aimed at curtailing rural-to-urban migration by unskilled workers can lead to a Pareto improvement for both the urban and rural dwellers. In addition, the government can raise social welfare by reducing the migration of skilled workers to the city. Moreover, without a restriction on rural-to-urban migration, a government's efforts to increase educational expenditure and thereby the number of skilled workers may not increase wage rates in the rural or urban areas. |
| Classification | Migration, Sociology of Migration; Political Economy; Economic Policy |
| Free Keywords | Rural-to-urban migration; The externality effect of the average level of human capital; Agglomeration economies; Public policies; B12; H21; O15; O18; R13; R23 |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Page/Pages | p. 234-247 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 68 (2008) 1 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2008.04.003 |
| Status | Postprint; reviewed |
| Licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) |
| Document Type | journal article |
