The Costs and Returns of Human Migration

Larry Sjaastad

Chapter 9 in Regional Economics, 1970, pp 115-133 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Migration research has dealt mainly with the forces which affect migration and how strongly they have affected it, but little has been done to determine the influence of migration as an equilibrating mechanism in a changing economy. The movements of migrants clearly are in the appropriate direction, but we do not know whether the numbers are sufficient to be efficient in correcting income disparities as they emerge. There is a strong presumption that they are not.

Keywords: Private Return; Human Migration; Resource Mobility; Private Cost; Private Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1970
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