Structural Change Out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull

A declining agricultural employment share is a key feature of economic development. Its main drivers are: improvements in agricultural technology combined with Engel's law release resources from agriculture ("labor push"), and improvements in industrial technology attract labor out of...

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Volume:	3
Main Author:	Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado Markus Poschke
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NASHVILLE American Economic Association 01.07.2011 AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
published in:	American economic journal. Macroeconomics Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 127 - 158
Data of publication:	20110701
ISSN:	1945-7707 1945-7715
EISSN:	1945-7715
Discipline:	Economics Agriculture
Subjects:	Productivity Manufacturing industries Relative prices Farm economics Employment Industrial agriculture Agriculture Macroeconomics Crop economics World wars Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Farmworkers Economic models Wages & salaries Labor market Informal economy Economists Economic development Studies Gross Domestic Product--GDP Adverse selection Labor force TRANSFORMATION MIGRATION PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT US
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