Migration selectivity and the effects of public programs
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In this paper, a model of the spatial distribution of mobile heterogeneous agents is formulated to assess how a price change or program subsidy that is location-specific affects the composition of local residents via selective migration and thus biases evaluations of the effectiveness of the program based on its local consequences.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1988-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 143 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internal migration & Population.read more
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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
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The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
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A model of labor migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries.
TL;DR: In this paper, an economic behavioral model of rural urban migration is formulated which represents a realistic modification and extension of the simple wage differential approach commonly found in the literature and this probablistic approach is incorporated into a rigorous model of the determinants of urban labor demand and supply which when given values for the crucial parameters can be used among other things to estimate the equilibrium proportion of the urban labor force that is not absorbed by the modern industrial economy.
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