The Journal of Development Studies
Volume 19, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 539-543

A Note on Modelling Labour Migration in LDCs (Article)

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

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. © 1983, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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DOI: 10.1080/00220388308421881
ISSN: 00220388
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English