The Journal of Development Studies
Volume 20, Issue 4, 1984, Pages 318-322

A note on modelling labour migration in ldcs (Article)

Stark O.*
  • a Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States

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 aversion 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. © 1984, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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DOI: 10.1080/00220388408421920
ISSN: 00220388
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English