Adam Smith on Migration
(2010) In Migration Letters 7(1). p.105-113- Abstract
- Adam Smith considered poverty and unemployment as push factors for mi-gration and wages high enough to provide for a worker and his family as a pull factor. Migration as a free mobility of labour leads to an optimal allocation of the factor commodity labour as well as changes of employment which nec-essary to equalise wages between different geographical entities. The conse-quences are not only promoting economic growth and prosperity, but also re-ducing poverty. Smith has no contemporary empirical support for his theory.
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- author
- Rauhut, Daniel LU
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- migration theory, wages unemployment, poverty
- in
- Migration Letters
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 105 - 113
- publisher
- London: European Business School, Regent's College
- ISSN
- 1741-8992
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- e02e779e-014e-4dec-85ad-10b8257dd27f
- alternative location
- https://migrationletters.com/index.php/ml/article/view/184/177
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