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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration

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  • Stark, Oded

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The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c) relevant policy implications. The main focus of the study is the interactions between rural-to-urban migration of labour and a number of development variables - namely technological change in agricultural production, income distribution by size, distribution and level of unemployment, fertility behaviour - as well as some other variables. The study concludes by referring to the policy implications emanating from the analysis of these interactions. Perhaps the most striking conclusion emerging from the analysis is that in light of the various benefits and the not unfavourable side (net) effects (both private and social) generated by rural-tourban migration, some of the most frequently expressed concerns accompanying it are groundless. Moreover, many of the policy recommendations prescribed to reduce or eliminate it are unnecessary, irrelevant and unlikely to be effective. The study is organized around an explicit (and novel) analytical construct which is, in particular, a less-developed-economy agriculture-specific construct. (...)

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  • Stark, Oded, 1978. "Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration," EconStor Books, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, volume 6, number 232285, October.
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    Keywords

    Rural-to-urban migration; Agricultural development;

    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
    • J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q14 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Finance
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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