Income Distribution, Fertility Decisions and the Shadow Wage Rate: Implications of a New Approach to Rural-to-Urban Migration in LDCs

Oded Stark

EconStor Conference Papers from ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Abstract: This paper presents the outline of a new approach to the theory of rural-to-urban migration in less developed countries. Implications of the approach for inequality in the distribution of income, fertility decisions, and the shadow wage rate are explored.

Date: 1979
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