Migration selectivity and the evolution of spatial inequality

By Ravi Kanbur, Hillel Rapoport. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers (2008, background): “See for example Carrington et al. (1996), Munshi (2003) and Kanbur and Rapoport (2005) .”
Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of Literature (2007, background): “Kanbur and Rapoport (2005) demonstrated that increased migration from poorer to richer areas may in fact coexist with increasing or decreasing spatial inequalities, and that the question of whether divergence or convergence occurs critically depends on specific patterns of migration selectivity and…”
The Rise of the “City-region” Concept and its Development Policy Implications (2008, background): “…of skilled people in rural areas, rural– urban migration may foster the rise in income inequalities between urban cores and their hinterlands (Kanbur & Rapoport, 2005), leading to a greater concentration of economic activity near the core, at the expense of increasingly depopulated rural…”
The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Although the emphasis of this review is on interregional migration, it also discusses some findings from the international migration literature that are highly relevant to interregional studies (Greenwood, 1975; Kanbur & Rapoport, 2005).”
Local Labour Markets and the Interregional Mobility of Italian University Students (2013, background): “Building on the literature on brain drain, the growing literature on selective migration has pointed at the diverging effect of migration when it takes the form of human capital attraction from less developed areas (Fratesi and Percoco, 2010; Fratesi and Riggi, 2007; Kanbur and Rapoport, 2005).”
Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “Kanbur and Rapoport (2005) demonstrated that increased migration from poorer to richer areas may in fact coexist with increasing or decreasing spatial inequalities, and that the question of whether divergence or convergence occurs critically depends on specific patterns of migration selectivity and…”
Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico (2007, unknown): “3 See also Kanbur and Rapoport (2005). 4 See Rapoport and Docquier (2006) for a survey of the causes and consequences of migrants' remittances.”