ANALYSIS OF THEORY OF MIGRATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT BY HARRIS & TODARO

Migration, Employment, and Development

John Harris & Michael p. Todaro “Migration, Employment, and Development” American Economic Review

Critical analysis of the model

This article focuses on the interested economic occurrence in less metropolitan or urban economies of the globe predominantly in humid and tropical part of Africa. The consequence of provided parametric metropolitan remuneration on the countryside individual's monetary performance when the hypothesis of no farming employment excess is made pretentious that farming subsidiary product is constantly optimistic and contrarily associated to the mass of the rural work strength. The main focuses of the article according to its authors are summarized below:

To reveal that specified politically resolute high minimum pay continual survival of rural-metropolitan or urban immigration

To illustrate that economists' typical strategy recommendation Of making shadow prices

To estimate the wellbeing proposition of substitute policies coupled with a variety of programs related to back to land

To fall out that in the nonexistence of wage flexibility Is an optimal "policy package"

The functional and mathematical expressions are providing the following points of discussion:

Production function for agricultural commodities

Production utility for industrial practices

Function for price determination

Determination of agricultural remuneration

Factual pay in manufacturing practices

Urban anticipated wage and; finally

Symmetry and / or equilibrium point

The essential sculpture which was engaged can be portrayed as a bi-division inner trade model with unemployment. The bi division is the stable metropolitan or urban and the rural.

For systematic rationale differentiate linking divisions from the spot of construction and earnings. The metropolitan or urban division focuses in building of affected commodity, quantity of which is sold abroad to the rural division in exchange for agricultural commodities.

The rural division has an option of either consuming all existing labor to produce a single agricultural commodity, some of which is exported to the metropolitan or ...