title: Rural-to-urban migration and the shadow wage in LDCs.
abstract: "This paper discusses the amount of rural-to-urban migration which will be forthcoming when a new urban job is created for which an institutionally fixed wage above the market-clearing level is offered.  A simple formula is proposed to estimate migration response.  It can be used to calculate the shadow wage in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in less developed countries (LDCs)."
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006280:Health Workforce; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Cost Benefit Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Employment Status; Estimation Technics; Evaluation; Human Resources; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Quantitative Evaluation; Research Methodology; Rural-urban Migration; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Wages