Rural and urban labour markets in developing countries are integrated by migration flows, which respond to earnings opportunities at origin and destination. This is the core of the celebrated Harris and Todaro (1970) model, which shows how in equilibrium, migration flows equate expected wages between rural and urban areas. One important implication of this model is that changes in rural employm...

"In this paper we question the pioneering work of Todaro, which states that rural-to-urban labor migration in less developed countries (LDCs) is an individual response to a higher urban expected income. We demonstrate that rural-to-urban labor migration is perfectly rational even if urban expected income is lower than rural income. We achieve this under a set of fairly stringent conditions: ...

The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of skilled labour may raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled/unskilled labour lowers the urban unemployment of unskilled labour and widens the skilled-unskilled wage-gap. The paper provides an alternative explanatio...

Abstract This paper establishes the conditions under which indeterminacy can occur in a Neoclassical growth model with international labor mobility. In model, workers are supposed to move freely across countries without restrictions, and according Harris–Todaro mechanism that makes migration flows sensitive differences among markets conditions. The shows requires marginal returns immigrant be d...

This study tested whether there was a relationship between migration, unemployment, and urbanization based on the Harris-Todaro model in 12 regions of Turkey, which were formed according to NUTS-1 classification, period 2008 2019. For this purpose, panel data methods that consider cross-section dependency used study. As result analysis, it concluded valid TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4, TR5, TR6 regions. I...