A Harris-Todaro Agent-Based Model to Rural-Urban Migration
Physics and Society
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0510248,
title = {A Harris-Todaro Agent-Based Model to Rural-Urban Migration},
author = {Aquino L. Espindola and Jaylson J. Silveira and T. J. P. Penna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0510248},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 14 figures