Managing Migration from the Traditional to Modern Sector in Developing Countries

This paper models the process of migration from a traditional to a modern sector. Migrants from the traditional sector experience a period of unemployment before finding modern sector jobs. Because of congestion in the process that matches the unemployed with jobs, an increase in the amount of unemp...

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Main Author: Karp, Larry
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9162