Rural Employment, Migration and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Africa

Derek R. Byerlee and Carl K. Eicher
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Derek R. Byerlee: Michigan State University
Carl K. Eicher: Michigan State University

Chapter 11 in Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries, 1974, pp 273-313 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The literature of development economics has become increasingly concerned with the ‘employment problem’. Interest in this problem was stimulated by rapid increases in the rate of urban unemployment in many developing countries in the 1960s. Increasingly, however, the employment problem is being examined within the context of several widespread but related problems in the developing world such as (a) open and partial unemployment, particularly in the urban areas, (b) low-productivity labour and seasonal unemployment in agriculture, (c) wide disparities in personal income distribution, and (d) significant disparities between rural and urban incomes.2 Recognising these problems, numerous economists and policy-makers have replaced the traditional emphasis on growth as the primary indicator of development with a redefinition of development to include the multiple dimensions of growth, employment and equity.

Keywords: Wage Rate; Employment Problem; Rural Employment; Urban Labour Market; Urban Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1974
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-63663-1_11

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