title: The migration function and the Todaro paradox.
abstract: "The purpose of this paper is to present a microeconomic foundation of the migration function and to discuss the impact of an increase in the job creation rate on migration and urban unemployment.  Each rural worker must estimate his expected urban income on the basis of his own expected numbers of both newly created jobs and migrants during the coming period.  Workers whose expected urban income is greater than the rural one decide to migrate, while those who estimate smaller urban income stay on."  The geographical focus is on developing countries.
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014478:Unemployment
keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Employment; Employment Status; Human Resources; Income; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; Motivation; Population; Population Dynamics; Psychological Factors; Research Methodology; Rural-urban Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Unemployment