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Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?

Lagakos, David

The Journal of economic perspectives, 2020-07, Vol.34 (3), p.174-192 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities?
Autor: Lagakos, David
Assuntos: Cities in Developing Countries
É parte de: The Journal of economic perspectives, 2020-07, Vol.34 (3), p.174-192
Descrição: This article provides an overview of the growing literature on urban-rural gaps in the developing world. I begin with recent evidence on the size of the gaps as measured by consumption, income, and wages, and argue that the gaps are real rather than just nominal. I then discuss the role of sorting more able workers into urban areas and review an array of recent evidence on outcomes from rural-urban migration. Overall, migrants do experience substantial gains on average, though smaller than suggested by the cross-sectional gaps. I conclude that future work should help further explore the frictions—in particular, information, financial, and in land markets—that hold back rural-urban migration and may help explain the persistence of urban-rural gaps.
Editor: American Economic Association
Idioma: Inglês

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