Arbeitspapier
The Todaro Paradox Revisited
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an efficiency wage model, we find that there is no Todaro paradox while this is not always true in a search-matching model since a decrease in the urban unemployment benefit can increase both urban employment and unemployment.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 652
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Labor Contracts
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Thema
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Efficiency Wages
Search-Matching
Rural-Urban Migration
Policy
Effizienzlohn
Landflucht
Städtische Arbeitslosigkeit
Arbeitslosenversicherung
Theorie
Matching
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zenou, Yves
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
- (wo)
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Stockholm
- (wann)
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2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Zenou, Yves
- The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
Entstanden
- 2005