caa a22 4500 397559488 CHVBK 20180308164812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199606 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a020904 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a020904 Cohort-Specific Rural-Urban Migration in Africa [Elektronische Daten] [Charles M. Becker, Christopher D. Grewe] Rural-urban migration has been modeled by both demographers and economists since the 1960s. Little regard has been given by either discipline for the other's models. In particular, economists have disregarded the possibility that net migration rates can be strongly affected by shifts in the demographic composition of the population under consideration. Aggregate studies implicitly assume that the demographic structure is constant. The purpose of this paper is to address this void in the African context. We examine three hypotheses: 1) that variables explaining the net urban in-migration rates vary with the age of the migrants; 2) that changes in the availability of services in urban areas is a factor in migration; and 3) that cohort structures (age pyramids) are also part of the explanation. © Centre for the Study of African Economies Articles nationallicence Becker Charles M. Economics Institute, and Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder aut Grewe Christopher D. Economics Institute, and Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder aut Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press 5/2(1996-06), 228-270 0963-8024 5:2<228 1996 5 jafeco https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a020904 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a020904 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Becker Charles M. Economics Institute, and Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grewe Christopher D. Economics Institute, and Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press 5/2(1996-06), 228-270 0963-8024 5:2<228 1996 5 jafeco Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford