Internal migration and urban employment in the third world

Abstract

For more than a decade Michael Todaros model has provided a widely accepted theoretical framework for explaining the massive flows of rural urban migration that are observed in many Third World countries. This paper however presents data amassed from a wide range of countries to highlight a crucial shortcoming of that model. It will be shown that far from being general in nature the Todaro approach is limited to explaining the movement of persons possessed of sufficient human capital to qualify them for modern sector employment....The present work utilizes the perspective of the urban subsistence sector to develop a model that serves as a useful complement to that of Todaro. (EXCERPT)

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