title: Comparing earnings profiles in urban areas of an LDC: rural-to-urban migrants vs. native workers.
abstract: "We use Tanzanian data to test a recently proposed hypothesis that rural-to-urban migrants have an incentive to supply greater work effort than native urban workers, because of the migrants' positive probability of returning to the low-wage rural areas.  We treat the choice between public- and private-sector employment as endogenous and, for theoretical and empirical reasons, distinguish migrants with access to rural land from those without access.  Our results show that migrants in both sectors face lower initial wage offers than native urban workers.  But, the wage gap is eliminated within a decade  or less, and thereafter, migrants surpass the wage offers of native workers."
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D007182:Income; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013636:Tanzania; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Comparative Studies; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Eastern Africa; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Income; Migrants; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Rural-urban Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Studies; Tanzania