Journal Article Backward-Sloping Labor Supply Function in Dual Economies — the Africa Case: Reply Get access Elliot Berg Elliot Berg Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 76, Issue 4, December 1962, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/1879554 Published: 01 December 1962

I. Introduction, 549. — II. Economic policies: the socialist development model, 551. — III. Origins of socialist attitudes, 554. — IV. The Guinea experience, 556. — V. The inapplicability of the Socialist model, 560. — VI. Conclusion, 571.

Introduction, 468. — I. The dual economy and the migrant labor system, 470. — II. The individual's offer of labor, 472. — III. The supply of labor to the exchange economy as a whole, 480; the level of village income and the supply of labor, 480; the rate of wages and the supply of labor in the exchange sector, 485. — IV. The supply of labor to the territory, 489. — V. Summary and conclusions, 491.