Robert E B Lucas

Crossing the Divide

Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

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Produktbeschreibung

Crossing the Divide examines the nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between the rural and urban sectors of developing countries. Using nationally representative, micro-level data from seventy-five countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean over the course of several decades, Robert E.B. Lucas provides the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of internal migration currently available.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1066g
• ISBN-13: 9780197602157
• ISBN-10: 0197602150
• Artikelnr.: 63156920

Autorenporträt

Robert E.B. Lucas is Professor of Economics, Boston University. He is also Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies, MIT.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: An Introduction and Preview
* Chapter 2: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement
* 2.1. Lifetime Migration
* 2.2. Interim Moves
* 2.3. Some Comparisons of Alternative Measurement Approaches
* 2.4. An Implication: Symmetry or Asymmetry in Moves between Rural and
Urban Areas?
* Chapter 3: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural and
Urban Sectors
* 3.1. Measurement Results
* 3.2. The Country-Specific Contexts.
* 3.3. Closing Remarks
* Chapter 4: Who Migrates, Who Stays?
* 4.1. A Literature Summary
* 4.2. New Evidence: Characterizing the Movers
* Chapter 5: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration
* 5.1. Labor Migration: The Individualistic View
* 5.2. Family Decisions and the New Economics of Labor Migration
* 5.3. On Barriers to Internal Migration
* 5.4. Extending the Evidence: Selection and the Returns to Migration
and Staying
* Chapter 6: The Roles of Social Networks
* 6.1. Social Networks and Internal Migration: Approaches and
Limitations
* 6.2. Gravity Models and the Dynamics of Cumulative Inertia
* 6.3. Urban Networks in Rural-Urban Migration: Nationally
Representative Estimates
* 6.4. Exploring Multiple Networks
* 6.5. Networks at Origin
* 6.6. A Summing Up
* Chapter 7: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration
* 7.1. Evidence on the Impermanence of Moves
* 7.2. Return Migration
* 7.3. Selection and Upward Mobility among Rural-Urban Migrants
* 7.4. Short-term, Seasonal Migration
* 7.5. Notes on Repeat and Step Migration
* Chapter 8: Impacts of Migration upon Families
* 8.1. Migrant Departure and the Living Standards of Those Left Behind
* 8.2 Couples: Cohabitation and Migration
* 8.3. Migration and the Well-being of Children
* Chapter 9: In Perspective: A Summing Up
* 9.1. Rural-Urban Migration and Urbanization
* 9.2. The Role of Rural-Urban Migration in Economic Development
* 9.3. The Incidence and Importance of Temporary Moves
* 9.4. The Gender Balance in Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide
* 9.5. Implications for the Structure and Well-Being of Families
* 9.6. Rural-urban Migration: The Policy Framework
* 9.7. A Postscript: The COVID Pandemic
* Appendix A: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement
* Appendix B: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural
and Urban Sectors
* Appendix C: Who Migrates, Who Stays?
* Appendix D: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration
* Appendix E: The Roles of Social Networks
* Appendix F: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration
* Appendix G: Impacts of Migration upon Families
* References