Where to create jobs : cities or towns? (English)

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty? To answer this policy question we extend the basic Todaro-type model of rural-urban migration to the case of migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary town and big city. We first derive labor income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural to town to city will...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

De Weerdt,Joachim;

Kanbur,Ravi;
Document Date
2017/04/21
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
115360
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2017/05/31
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Where to create jobs : cities or towns?
Keywords
model of labor migration

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Christiaensen,Luc; De Weerdt,Joachim; Kanbur,Ravi.

Where to create jobs : cities or towns? (English). Jobs Working Papers|issue no. 2 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/631371496206279228

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