Life Earnings and Rural-Urban Migration

By Robert E. Lucas. 2004

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This paper is a theoretical study of rural‐urban migration—urbanization—as it has occurred in many low‐income economies in the postwar period. This process is viewed as a transfer of labor from a traditional, land‐intensive technology to a human capital–intensive technology with an unending potential for growth. The model emphasizes the role of cities as places in which new immigrants can accumulate the skills required by modern production technologies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Rise of the “City-region” Concept and its Development Policy Implications (2008, background): “A fundamental source of population growth in cities has been rural–urban migration (Gilbert, 1993; Guest, 1994; Scott, 2001b, p. 817; Henderson & Wang, 2003; Lucas, 2004).”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “The amount of resources, though, will influence the domestic allocation of labor across the other sectors through income effects.”
Viewpoint: From Cities to Productivity and Growth in Developing Countries (2008, neutral): “Lucas (2004) proposes a model of urban-rural migration and learning where rural workers optimally migrate to cities.”
Endowment Structures, Industrial Dynamics, and Economic Growth (2009, background): “For example, Lucas (2004) studies the rural-urban 1There are some exceptions: Vernon (1965) develops a product-cycle argument to explain how the location of production for a commodity might shift across countries over time.”
Externalities and Growth (2004, neutral): “Peter J. Klenow Department of Economics 579 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6072 and NBER pete@klenow.com Andrés Rodriguez-Clare Inter-American Adevelopment Bank (IADB) andresro@iadb.org”
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