Abstract
The discouraging record of the last two decades however particularly in relation to the rapid urbanization and growing levels of urban unemployment in developing nations plus the fact that comparative data on wage rates show that urban-rural differentials are slightly increasing over time in absolute terms has underlined the inadequacy of treating migration as a phenomenon of secondary importance. As a matter of fact the selective characteristics of the migration process are precisely what many scholars claim to be the key reasons for the perpetuation of underdevelopment in poor areas. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the internal development process that has been taking place in Spain (probably the very last country to follow the Western model with success) in the logic of the above scheme. Did both internal and external migration lead to a wage convergence between sectors and between regions? Did income and capital grow faster in the poor regions? Our study tries to provide answers for these related questions using a macro-aggregate model with migration as a key variable. (excerpt)
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