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THE EMERGENCE OF MIGRATION THEORY AND A SUGGESTED NEW DIRECTION
Author(s) -
Shields Gail M.,
Shields Michael P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of economic surveys
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.657
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1467-6419
pISSN - 0950-0804
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6419.1989.tb00072.x
Subject(s) - economics , human capital , unit (ring theory) , internal migration , capital (architecture) , public good , labour economics , economic geography , microeconomics , geography , market economy , economic growth , developing country , mathematics education , mathematics , archaeology
. The literature on internal labour migration is surveyed using a fourfold taxonomic scheme. The potential migrant, as presented in the existing literature, can be viewed as a supplier of labour, an investor in human capital and a consumer of regional amenities such as public goods. The paper develops a fourth approach which treats the household, rather than the individual, as the migrating unit and which views the potential migrant as a producer of home produced commodities. The continuities as well as the contrasts between the four approaches are discussed in the paper.