Individual Ability and Selection into Migration in Kenya
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- Edward Miguel & Joan Hamory, 2009. "Individual Ability and Selection into Migration in Kenya," Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) HDRP-2009-45, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), revised Sep 2009.
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Keywords
Migration; selection; human capital; ability; urban-rural wage gap; productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-12-19 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2009-12-19 (Development)
- NEP-LAB-2009-12-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2009-12-19 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2009-12-19 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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