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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration

Stark, Oded - 1978

The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c)...

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On the Role of Urban-to-Rural Remittances in Rural Development

Stark, Oded - In: The Journal of Development Studies 16 (1980) 3, pp. 369-374

In this paper I present a new approach to rural-to-urban migration in developing countries. This approach sheds new light on the role of urban-to-rural remittances in bringing about technological change in the agricultural sector of these countries. At the core of the new approach is a utility...

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The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor : A Hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while the...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : A hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while...

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On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support

Stark, Oded; Fałkowski, Jan - 2018

growing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a model that enables us to … analyze the level of social stress experienced by farmers as employment shifts from the farm sector to other sectors, we find … that even without an increasing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers, support to …

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On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support

Stark, Oded; Fałkowski, Jan - 2018

growing gap between the incomes of nonagricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a model that enables us to … analyze the level of social stress experienced by farmers as employment shifts from the farm sector to other sectors, we find … that even without an increasing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers, support to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931023