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Rural-Urban Migration: Urban Unemployment and Rural Urban Disparties in the Philippines
Philippine Review of Economics
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Rural-Urban Migration: Urban Unemployment and Rural Urban Disparties in the Philippines
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| Creator |
Gonzales, Eduardo T.
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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 papers attempts to verify empirically the validity of the model in explaining Philippine rural-urban migration. The results indicate a strong monotonic relationship between urban-rural income differential and migration propensity, suggesting that urban unemployment have no deterrent effect on rural-urban migration. While urban employment expansion remains a valid policy, it is apparent that output can be increased only if the supply of labor to urban areas is slowed down and reabsorbed in alternative employment in agriculture.
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Philippine Review of Economics
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1990-12-07
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/pre/index.php/pre/article/view/271
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| Source |
Philippine Review of Economics; Vol 27, No 2 (1990)
1655-1516 |
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en
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Copyright (c) 2017 Philippine Review of Economics
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