Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries

This paper models the process of migration from a traditional to a modern sector. Migrants from the traditional sector experience a period of unemployment before finding modern sector jobs. Because of congestion in the process that matches the unemployed with jobs, an increase in the amount of unemp...

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Main Author:	Karp, Larry
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9162

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spelling	okr-10986-91622021-04-23T14:02:44Z Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries Karp, Larry World Development Report 2008 This paper models the process of migration from a traditional to a modern sector. Migrants from the traditional sector experience a period of unemployment before finding modern sector jobs. Because of congestion in the process that matches the unemployed with jobs, an increase in the amount of unemployment increases the expected duration of unemployment for the representative migrant. Skilled workers can provide education and other services that decrease the expected duration of unemployment, but the competitive market under-provides these services. Congestion in the search process and the under-provision of migration services are market failures, requiring two types of government policies. 2012-06-26T15:40:06Z 2012-06-26T15:40:06Z 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9162 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank East Asia and Pacific
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description	This paper models the process of migration from a traditional to a modern sector. Migrants from the traditional sector experience a period of unemployment before finding modern sector jobs. Because of congestion in the process that matches the unemployed with jobs, an increase in the amount of unemployment increases the expected duration of unemployment for the representative migrant. Skilled workers can provide education and other services that decrease the expected duration of unemployment, but the competitive market under-provides these services. Congestion in the search process and the under-provision of migration services are market failures, requiring two types of government policies.
author	Karp, Larry
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title	Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries
title_short	Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries
title_full	Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries
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Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries

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