| dc.creator | Collier, Valerie C. | |
| dc.creator | Rempel, Henry | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T13:24:00Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-06T13:24:00Z | |
| dc.date | 1974 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:57:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:57:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Collier, Valerie C. and Rempel, Henry. (1974) The divergence of private from social costs in rural-urban migration: a case study of Nairobi, Kenya. Discussion Paper 181, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/535 | |
| dc.identifier | 317774 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1888 | |
| dc.description | In Developing Economies the level of urban wages tends
to induce more people to seek employment in the towns than can be
employed at this wage level. The existence of these urban unemployed
causes the private costs of migration to diverge from the social
costs. The individual rural resident decides to remain or migrate
on the basis of perceived private costs of migration. The effect
of a decision to migrate on the economy is the social cost of
migration. In our study we consider the determinants of different
levels of private and social costs associated with different stocks
of urban unemployed. In addition, utilizing survey data on Nairobi,
Kenya, an attempt is made to quantify, the major private and social
costs of migration to determine whether they diverge significantly.
On the basis of these estimates some policy options for limiting
urban unemployment caused by urban in-migration are considered. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;181 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Migration | |
| dc.title | The divergence of private from social costs in rural-urban migration: a case study of Nairobi, Kenya | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
