s The purpose of this paper is to explain the determinants of migration in Korea with the ratio of farm to unskilled urban wages using the time series data according to the Todaro hypothesis with the VAR approaches for capturing the short-run behavior of each variable and that analyzes the overall fluctuation of internal migration based on white noise disturbances. The test results show that th...

Acknowledgements We acknowledge support of our research from the European Union (EU Framework Program 6, AGRON-OMICS (LSHG-CT-2006-037704)), the Swiss National Science Foundation, CTI (Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency) and ETH Zurich. We thank the Functional Genomics Center Zurich for support of our profiling experiments. Apologies to all colleagues whose work could not be cited due to space c...

Giuseppe Chiazzese, Simona Ottaviano, Gianluca Merlo, Antonella Chiari, Mario Allegra, Luciano Seta and Giovanni Todaro Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies (ITD), Department of Palermo, C.N.R. Via Ugo La Malfa, 153 – Palermo, Italy E-mail: [giuseppe.chiazzese,simona.ottaviano,gianluca.merlo,antonella.chifari]@itd.cnr.it E-mail: [mario.allegra,luciano.seta,g...

∗Present address: Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València, Apartado de Correros 22085, E46071 Valencia, Spain. Partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under Grant No. FPA2007-60323, by CPAN (Grant No. CSD200700042), and by the European Commission MRTN FLAVIAnet under Contract No. MRTN-CT-2006-035482. †Speaker. ‡Supported in part by Studienstiftung des...

This paper uses the Harris-Todaro model of rural-urban migration to explore how inequality is likely to evolve during the course of various kinds of economic development. It is shown that development in agriculture is likely to be reduce inequality. The paper also shows that the Kuznets curve is unlikely to be a general result, and clari¿es the reasons for the observed link between dualism and ...