Inequality, the Urban-Rural Gap, and Migration*

By Alwyn Young. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries (2017, unknown): “Young (2013) argues that rural-urban wage gaps mainly reflect differences in skills of workers living in rural and urban areas, and differences in skill intensity of production located in rural and urban areas, so that wage gaps do not reflect frictions, but instead reflect labor sorting based on…”
Quantitative Spatial Economics (2017, unknown): “This raises the question of the extent to which observed urban–rural wage differentials within countries reflect migration frictions, nonrandom selection of worker productivity, the cost of land and other nontraded goods, and amenity differences (see, e.g., Young 2013, Bryan & Morten 2015).”
The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, unknown): “19While Young (2013) uses household asset ownership and child mortality from the Demographic and Health Surveys as measures of economic development, these data do not exist before the late 1980s, have limited geographic information before the late 1990s, are not representative at the local level,…”
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, unknown): “…John Gallup, Edward Glaeser, Rafael Gonzalez-Val, Vernon Henderson, Richard Hornbeck, Adam Storeygard, Anthony Yezer, Leonard Wantchekon and seminar audiences at the 3rd Workshop on Urban Economics (Barcelona), AEHN Meeting (Simon Fraser), ASSA meetings (Philadelphia), Cambridge (RES), Cape…”
Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature (2021, background): “Available empirical studies report the presence of a large urban premium in earnings relative rural areas (Henderson, Nigmatulina and Kriticos, 2018, Young, 2013) and a large productivity gap between agriculture and non-agricultural sectors (Gollin, Lagakos and Waugh, 2014).”
Wealth Heterogeneity and the Income Elasticity of Migration (2017, background): “These findings are important broader debates on spatial labor misallocation and productivity (Lagakos and Waugh, 2013; Young, 2013).”
The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia (2017, unknown): “The fact that, within origin, there are no wage gaps without frictions means that we rule out the kind of behavior discussed in Young (2013), where selection alone drives wage gaps.”
Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture (2019, background): “An important body of work on wage gaps and implications for labor market efficiency challenges the second key assumption of the benchmark model noted earlier: the fungibility of labor (Young 2013; Herrendorf and Schoellman 2018).”
Urban-Rural Gaps in the Developing World: Does Internal Migration Offer Opportunities? (2020, methodology): “The pioneering paper by Young (2013) offers an alternative approach to measuring real rural-urban consumption gaps in the developing world that sidesteps the need for spatial price indices.”
Cities in Developing Countries: Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing (2015, background): “Young (2013) offers empirical evidence supporting a view at variance with the models described above.”
What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States (2017, unknown): “Presumably, a significant fraction of these gulfs reflect unobserved and observed human capital characteristics (Young, 2013), and perhaps also non-pecuniary compensation in rural areas.”
Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (2019, unknown): “5 to 2 times greater than those from rural-to-urban migration (Young, 2013).”