Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility
How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic conce...
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okr-10986-40382021-04-23T14:02:14Z Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility Lall, Somik V. Timmins, Christopher Yu, Shouyue AGGLOMERATION BENEFITS AIR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES BIASES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CENSUSES CITIZEN CLIMATE CHANGE COLLEGE EDUCATION CONGESTION CONGESTION COSTS COST OF LIVING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DRINKING WATER DRIVING EARNINGS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION LEVEL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES FAMILY PLANNING FERTILITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CENTERS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITAL HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRANTS INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL BANK INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MOBILITY LACK OF ACCESS LEGAL STATUS LIMITED ACCESS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRANT MIGRANTS MIGRATION MIGRATION FLOWS MINIMUM WAGE MOBILITY MOBILITY OF LABOR MOTIVATION NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL RESOURCES NEO-NATAL CARE OLD MEN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION MOVEMENTS POPULATION SIZE POTENTIAL MIGRANTS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICES PULL FACTORS REGISTRATION SYSTEM RETIREMENT RURAL AREAS SANITATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SEWAGE SEX TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COST TRANSPORTATION COSTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AMENITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN MIGRATION URBANIZATION VILLAGES WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WATER SUPPLY WORKING HOURS YOUNG WORKERS How can policies improve the welfare of people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have encouraged the geographic concentration of people and economic activities - policies that try to offset these forces to encourage balanced economic growth have largely been unsuccessful. However, policies that help people get closer to economic density have improved individual welfare. In this paper, the authors examine the migration decisions of working-age Brazilians and find that the pull of higher wages in leading regions has a strong influence on the decision to migrate. However, many people are also "pushed" to migrate, starved of access to basic public services such as clean water and sanitation in their hometowns. Although migration is welfare-improving for these individuals, the economy may end up worse off as these migrants are more likely to add to congestion costs in cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits. Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly improve welfare as well as reduce the type of migration motivated by the search for life-supporting basic services. 2012-03-19T19:08:50Z 2012-03-19T19:08:50Z 2009-02-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090223160812 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4038 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4843 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region |
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AGGLOMERATION BENEFITS AIR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES BIASES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CENSUSES CITIZEN CLIMATE CHANGE COLLEGE EDUCATION CONGESTION CONGESTION COSTS COST OF LIVING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DRINKING WATER DRIVING EARNINGS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION LEVEL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES FAMILY PLANNING FERTILITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CENTERS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITAL HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRANTS INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL BANK INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MOBILITY LACK OF ACCESS LEGAL STATUS LIMITED ACCESS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRANT MIGRANTS MIGRATION MIGRATION FLOWS MINIMUM WAGE MOBILITY MOBILITY OF LABOR MOTIVATION NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL RESOURCES NEO-NATAL CARE OLD MEN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION MOVEMENTS POPULATION SIZE POTENTIAL MIGRANTS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICES PULL FACTORS REGISTRATION SYSTEM RETIREMENT RURAL AREAS SANITATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SEWAGE SEX TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COST TRANSPORTATION COSTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AMENITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN MIGRATION URBANIZATION VILLAGES WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WATER SUPPLY WORKING HOURS YOUNG WORKERS |
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AGGLOMERATION BENEFITS AIR BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES BIASES CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CENSUSES CITIZEN CLIMATE CHANGE COLLEGE EDUCATION CONGESTION CONGESTION COSTS COST OF LIVING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DRINKING WATER DRIVING EARNINGS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION LEVEL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ENROLLMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES FAMILY PLANNING FERTILITY HEALTH CARE HEALTH CENTERS HEALTH FACILITIES HEALTH SERVICES HOSPITAL HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRANTS INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INDIVIDUAL WELFARE INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL BANK INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MOBILITY LACK OF ACCESS LEGAL STATUS LIMITED ACCESS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRANT MIGRANTS MIGRATION MIGRATION FLOWS MINIMUM WAGE MOBILITY MOBILITY OF LABOR MOTIVATION NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL RESOURCES NEO-NATAL CARE OLD MEN POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION MOVEMENTS POPULATION SIZE POTENTIAL MIGRANTS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICES PULL FACTORS REGISTRATION SYSTEM RETIREMENT RURAL AREAS SANITATION SECONDARY EDUCATION SEWAGE SEX TRANSPORT TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION COST TRANSPORTATION COSTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT RATES URBAN AMENITIES URBAN AREAS URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE URBAN MIGRATION URBANIZATION VILLAGES WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGES WATER SUPPLY WORKING HOURS YOUNG WORKERS Lall, Somik V. Timmins, Christopher Yu, Shouyue Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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How can policies improve the welfare of
people in economically lagging regions of countries? Should
policies help jobs follow people? Or should they enable
people to follow jobs? In most countries, market forces have
encouraged the geographic concentration of people and
economic activities - policies that try to offset these
forces to encourage balanced economic growth have largely
been unsuccessful. However, policies that help people get
closer to economic density have improved individual welfare.
In this paper, the authors examine the migration decisions
of working-age Brazilians and find that the pull of higher
wages in leading regions has a strong influence on the
decision to migrate. However, many people are also
"pushed" to migrate, starved of access to basic
public services such as clean water and sanitation in their
hometowns. Although migration is welfare-improving for these
individuals, the economy may end up worse off as these
migrants are more likely to add to congestion costs in
cities than to contribute to agglomeration benefits.
Encouraging human capital formation can stimulate labor
mobility for economic gain; and improving access to and
quality of basic services in lagging regions will directly
improve welfare as well as reduce the type of migration
motivated by the search for life-supporting basic services. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Lall, Somik V. Timmins, Christopher Yu, Shouyue |
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Lall, Somik V. Timmins, Christopher Yu, Shouyue |
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Lall, Somik V. |
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Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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Connecting Lagging and Leading Regions : The Role of Labor Mobility |
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connecting lagging and leading regions : the role of labor mobility |
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2012 |
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