Backward-Sloping Labor Supply Functions in Dual Economies — the Africa Case

Elliot J. Berg

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1961, vol. 75, issue 3, 468-492

Abstract: Introduction, 468. — I. The dual economy and the migrant labor system, 470. — II. The individual's offer of labor, 472. — III. The supply of labor to the exchange economy as a whole, 480; the level of village income and the supply of labor, 480; the rate of wages and the supply of labor in the exchange sector, 485. — IV. The supply of labor to the territory, 489. — V. Summary and conclusions, 491.

Date: 1961
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