Journal Article10.1016/0165-4896(87)90037-0
The shadow wage: A note
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the shadow wage in the urban sector is not necessarily smaller than the market wage if the rate of population growth rises with rise in per-capita consumption (income).
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About: This article is published in Mathematical Social Sciences. The article was published on 01 Jun 1987. The article focuses on the topics: Wage & Efficiency wage.
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Migration, welfare, inequality and shadow wage
Manash Ranjan Gupta
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TL;DR: In this paper, the shadow wage in the urban sector is evaluated in a Harris-Todaro type of model using Sen's welfare measure that incorporates inequality in income in the welfare function.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a general methodology for analyzing shadow wage and other shadow prices, identifying those reduced form relationships describing the economy which are central to the determination of the shadow wage, and use these to obtain simple formulae for the shadow wages.
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Migration unemployment and development: a two-sector analysis.
Harris,Michael P. Todaro +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined why rural-urban labor migration persists and is even increasing in many developing nations despite the existence of positive marginal products in agriculture and significant levels of urban unemployment, and concluded that in the absence of wage flexibility an optimal policy would include both partial wage subsidies or direct government employment and measures to restrict free migration.