The Agricultural Exit Problem: An Empirical Assessment

This paper documents the development of agriculture�s share in total employment in the developing world, and relates it to developments in per capita income. As suggested by Engel's Law, it finds a strong and robust negative correlation between GDP per capita and the share of the labor force em...

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Main Authors: Bezemer, Dirk, Hazell, Peter
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9214