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Adam Smith on Migration

Rauhut, Daniel LU (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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migration theory, wages unemployment, poverty
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Migration Letters
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7
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1
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105 - 113
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London: European Business School, Regent's College
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1741-8992
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English
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