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patterns of urbanization in the developing world, while Section 2 turns to models of third world city growth and their … government policies on urbanization. Particular attention is devoted to structural adjustment policies, urban biases in public … structure. The final section looks at the macroeconomic impacts of urbanization—on wage gaps and income distribution, demand …
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This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that …
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This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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1. Introduction -- 2. The Informal Sector and Structural Transformation -- 3. The Informal Sector and Rural-to-Urban Migration -- 4. A Test of Two Rival Migration Models -- 5. An Analysis of Rural-to-Rural Migration -- 6. Conclusions.
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