Rural-urban migration, urban unemployment, and rural income disparities in the Philippines
In the Harris-Todaro model, a demand-augmenting policy, to the extent that it raises job probabilities, and hence, the positive urban-rural income differential, has the effect of stimulating a higher migration flow from the countryside, even in the face of massive urban unemployment. This paper atte...
| Published in: | Philippine Review of Economics and Business (formerly The Philippine Review of Business and Economics) Vol. XXVII, no. 2 (Dec. 1990), 177-207 |
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| Language: | English |
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1990
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