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Imbert, Clément and Papp, John (2020) Costs and benefits of rural-urban migration : evidence from India. Journal of Development Economics, 146 . 102473. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102473 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102473
Abstract
This paper provides new evidence on rural-urban migration decisions in developing countries. Using original survey data from rural India, we show that seasonal migrants prefer to earn 35 percent less on local public works rather than incur the cost of migrating. Structural estimates suggest that the fixed cost of migration is small, and can be entirely explained by travel costs and income risk. In contrast, the flow cost of migration is high. We argue that higher living costs in the city explain only a small part of the flow cost of migration and that most of it is non-monetary.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Rural-urban migration -- India, Migration, Internal -- India, Labor mobility -- India, Migrant labor -- India, Migration, Internal -- Economic aspects -- India, Welfare recipients -- Employment -- India, Public welfare -- India | ||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 146 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 102473 | ||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102473 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 March 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 April 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
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