The Migration of Labor
Published on 21. March 1991
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-55786-030-9 (ISBN)
Description
The author builds a new model of labour migration explaining it on the basis of three premise - firstly, that though migrants are often individual agents, there is more to migration than individual optimizing behaviour; secondly, that migration is not simply a response to wage differentials; and thirdly, that a great many migratory phenomena would not occur if the set of markets and financial institutions were complete. In the light of these premises, the author offers new insights on the strategic migratory behaviour of families, and the distribution of human capital and labour supply across markets and time. The work is aimed at researchers and graduate students in development and labour economics, development studies, demography, geography and policy analysis.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
719 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-030-9 (9781557860309)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Overviews; migration and risk; a relative deprivation approach to migration; labour migration under alternative informational regimes; migrants' remittances - motives, consequences and inequality implications; planning with migration; the economic performance of migrants.