Human capital: Migration and rural population change

By J. Taylor, Philip Martin, B. Gardner, Gordan C Rausser. 2001

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The Role of Rural–Urban Migration in the Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “Rural-to-urban migration is a necessary component of the economic development process, as the migration of labor out of agriculture has been a feature of the growth path of every country that has developed (Taylor & Martin, 2001).”
The Impact of Weather Anomalies on Migration in sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “Since Todaro’s [87] seminal paper and the review by Yap [94], it has become standard in the literature to relate, in an aggregate form, the migration rate to changes in expected income and to changes in the degree of urbanization (see also [86]).”
Migration and Income Diversification Evidence from Burkina Faso (2006, background): “1. Discussions of migration theories and their implications appear in Massey et al. (1993) and Taylor and Martin (2001) .”
Migration and Household Investment in Rural China (2008, methodology): “JEL Codes: D1, J6, O1 Household Investment through Migration in Rural China The role of migration in development is complex and much debated (Williamson, 1988; de Haan, 1999; Taylor and Martin, 2001).”
Farmer preferences for milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: a latent class approach (2007, unknown): “Off-farm employment, particularly long-distance migration, negatively impacts the labor pool and knowledge transmission of the milpa system (Taylor et al. 1999; Taylor and Martin 2000; Bellon 2004; Van Dusen 2006).”
Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico (2010, background): “A prolific literature in economics and the other social sciences attempts to explore the impacts of migration on migrant-sending areas (Taylor and Martin, 2001 ; Massey et al, 2005 ).”
Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “Even in areas where new labor opportunities open up, the supply remains high due to people migrating into these areas (Taylor & Martin, 2001).”
The impact of parental migration on children’s school performance in rural China (2014, background): “A substantial amount of China’s rapid economic growth can be attributed to the exodus of a massive number of hard working rural-urban people, the estimated number of emigrants is more than 100 million(Taylor and Martin, 2001).”
Seasonal Migration and Improving Living Standards in Vietnam (2004, unknown): “Both historically and in the present, the share of labor working in agriculture within a country declines as per capita GDP increases (Taylor and Martin 2001).”