Cash Seeking Behaviour and Migration: a Place-to-Place Migration Function for Côte d'Ivoire

This paper presents estimates of an aggregate place-to-place migration function for Cote d'lvoire based on the premise that migration is motivated by rural residents' desire for cash income. The results indicate that migration from a region responds differently to changes in cash and food income, which supports the idea that it is the composition of rural income, and not just its level, that determines migration flows.