Short-term migration, rural workfare programmes, and urban labour markets
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Rural and urban labour markets in developing countries are integrated by migration flows, which respond to earnings opportunities at origin and destination. This is the core of the celebrated Harris and Todaro (1970) model, which shows how in equilibrium, migration flows equate expected wages between rural and urban areas. One important implication of this model is that changes in rural employment opportunities will also impact urban labour markets via their effect on migration flows. My job market paper (Imbert and Papp 2014a) provides empirical evidence of this mechanism.
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