Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration
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.
- Weitere Titel
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Land-Stadt-Migration, Humankapital und Agglomeration
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 234-247
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 68(1)
- Thema
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Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Wirtschaftspolitik
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Migration
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Stark, Oded
Fan, C. Simon
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Niederlande
- (wann)
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2008
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-264044
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Stark, Oded
- Fan, C. Simon
Entstanden
- 2008