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CReAM Brown Bag seminar presented by Robert E. B. Lucas (Boston University)
26 February 2020, 1:30 pm–2:30 pm
Re-examining the Perceptions of Migration between Rural and Urban Areas: Evidence from Seventy-Five Developing Countries
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Tuan Nguyen
Location
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Room B19Drayton House30 Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0AX
Abstract: Drawing on a very large data-bank on individuals and their households, constructed for this study, a number of ideas about migration between rural and urban areas of developing countries are re-examined. Among the notions questioned are that rural-urban migration is: the chief source of rapid urbanization; a permanent relocation; reversed only by those who fail; sorting populations efficiently by skill-levels; and harming families left behind.
About the Speaker
Robert E. B. Lucas
at Boston University
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