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 |
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Main Author: |
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco
Poschke, Markus |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Place of publication: |
American Economic Association 2011 |
published in: | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Vol. 3; no. 3; pp. 127 - 58 |
Data of publication: | 2011 |
Series: |
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics |
Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
Database: | RePEc RePEc IDEAS Database information Databases - DBIS |