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%T Rural-to-urban migration, human capital, and agglomeration %A Stark, Oded %A Fan, C. Simon %J Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization %N 1 %P 234-247 %V 68 %D 2008 %K Rural-to-urban migration; The externality effect of the average level of human capital; Agglomeration economies; Public policies; B12; H21; O15; O18; R13; R23 %= 2011-09-05T11:01:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-264044 %X A new general-equilibrium model that links together rural-to-urban migration, the externality effect of the average level of human capital, and agglomeration economies shows that in developing countries, unrestricted rural-to-urban migration reduces the average income of both rural and urban dwellers in equilibrium. Various measures aimed at curtailing rural-to-urban migration by unskilled workers can lead to a Pareto improvement for both the urban and rural dwellers. In addition, the government can raise social welfare by reducing the migration of skilled workers to the city. Moreover, without a restriction on rural-to-urban migration, a government's efforts to increase educational expenditure and thereby the number of skilled workers may not increase wage rates in the rural or urban areas. %C NLD %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info