Abstract
Taking the family as the rural-to-urban migration decision-making unit, will the ‘expected-income migration model’ accurately predict the level of migration? Consideration of two variables - desire for leisure and aversion to risk-serves to show that the expected-income model yields a systematic downward bias in the predicted level of rural-to-urban migration. Likely policy implications emanating from the incorporation of these variables in the migration decision are indicated.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 539-543 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Development Studies |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jul 1983 |
Externally published | Yes |