WEALTH CONSTRAINTS, MIGRANT SELECTION, AND INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Journal Articles

abstract

• This paper builds a theoretical framework for studying migration and education in developing countries. Migration and education decisions are affected by migrants' wealth constraints. Technology and migration costs determine the pattern of migration through level of education, income, and wealth inequality. The model predicts that in the first stages of technological development, migration rates increase, as does economic inequality over time, for high migration costs. At more advanced stages of development, migration rates and wealth inequality decline. I show that these predictions are in line with the data.

authors

• Navarro, Joaquin Naval
• Naval, Joaquín

status

• published 

publication date

• March 2019

has subject area

• 1401 Economic Theory (FoR)
• 1402 Applied Economics (FoR)
• 1403 Econometrics (FoR)
• Economics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Macroeconomic Dynamics  Journal

keywords

• 10 Reduced Inequalities
• 38 Economics
• 3801 Applied Economics
• 3802 Econometrics
• 3803 Economic Theory

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s1365100516001255

start page

• 535

end page

• 567

volume

• 23

issue

• 2