A Harris-Todaro Agent-Based Model to Rural-Urban Migration

Details A Harris-Todaro Agent-Based Model to Rural-Urban Migration A Harris-Todaro Agent-Based Model to Rural-Urban Migration

2005-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510248v1

Physics

Physics and Society

7 pages, 14 figures

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The Harris-Todaro model of the rural-urban migration process is revisited under an agent-based approach. The migration of the workers is interpreted as a process of social learning by imitation, formalized by a computational model. By simulating this model, we observe a transitional dynamics with continuous growth of the urban fraction of overall population toward an equilibrium. Such an equilibrium is characterized by stabilization of rural-urban expected wages differential (generalized Harris-Todaro equilibrium condition), urban concentration and urban unemployment. These classic results obtained originally by Harris and Todaro are emergent properties of our model.

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