scholarly journals Rural-urban migration, urban unemployment and underemployment, and job-search activity in LDCs

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Fields
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Urban Unemployment ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Rural-Urban Migration, Urban Unemployment and Underemployment, and Job Search Activity in LDCs

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary S. Fields
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Labor Turnover ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Preferential Hiring ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

This chapter analyzes unemployment and underemployment in LDCs within a quantity adjustment framework. Four extensions of the Harris-Todaro model are made, including allowances for more generalized job-search behavior, an urban traditional sector, preferential hiring by educational level, and labor turnover considerations. The result of these modifications is a much lower predicted unemployment rate, which accords more closely with actual observations. Some additional policy implications deriving from the analysis are noted.

scholarly journals The Role of Institutions in Rural-Urban Migration and Urban Unemployment in LDCs: With and Without Changing Level of Indebtedness of the Peasantry

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamal Datta Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
Existence Of Equilibrium ◽  
Urban Unemployment ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

This paper attempts to formalise and integrate the roles of "rural push" and "urban pull" factors in rural-urban migration and urban unemployment. Perpetual indebtedness of the peasantry and a monopolistic moneylender, combined with the Harris-Todaro framework, constitute the model. Analysis reveal that such measures might fall short of their goal since the moneylender syphon off part of the benefits that are supposed to accrue to the workers. Possibilities of non-existence of equilibrium and multiple equilibria are pointed out in this model.

Women's rural-urban migration in Lebanon

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sally N. Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Rural Urban Migration ◽  
Low Income Women ◽  
The Impact

Women’s sole internal migration has been mostly ignored in migration studies, and the concentration on migrant women has been almost exclusively on low-income women within the household framework. This study focuses on middleclass women’s contemporary rural-urban migration in Lebanon. It probes into the determinants and outcomes of women’s sole internal migration within the empowerment framework. The study delves into the interplay of the personal, social, and structural factors that determine the women’s rural-urban migration as well as its outcomes. It draws together the lived experiences of migrant women to explore the determinants of women’s internal migration as well as the impact of migration on their expanded empowerment.

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