Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Emerick, Kyle
• 署名单位: Tufts University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.08.013
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 488-503
• 关键词: agricultural productivity; Labor allocation

摘要

How do shocks to agricultural productivity affect the allocation of labor across sectors of the economy? To answer this, I use data from rural India to show that exogenous increases in agricultural productivity - caused by abnormally high levels of precipitation - lead to an increase in the labor share of the non-agricultural sector. I further show that the non-tradable sector expands significantly when agricultural output increases. This evidence is consistent with increasing agricultural output causing increased demand for local non-tradables, which in turn increases the non-agricultural labor share.