TY - BOOK ID - 84542661 TI - Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy Model of a Developing Country PY - 2001 SN - 1462300464 1452752249 1282111779 9786613803962 1451900317 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Emigration and Immigration KW - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty KW - Human Capital KW - Skills KW - Occupational Choice KW - Labor Productivity KW - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility KW - Promotion KW - Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis KW - Housing KW - Infrastructure KW - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration KW - Regional Labor Markets KW - Population KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - International Migration KW - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Migration, immigration & emigration KW - Wages KW - Human capital KW - Migration KW - Unemployment KW - Income KW - Population and demographics KW - National accounts KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Nigeria KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84542661 AB - The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration decision, and costs of backmigration may produce an urban poverty trap if unemployment lowers household wealth below the cost of skills acquisition. ER -