Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Picard, PM; Zeng, DZ
• 署名单位: Kagawa University; University of Manchester; Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.03.002
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 75-106
• 关键词: agricultural sector; agglomeration; migration; labor market

摘要

In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. Our conclusions show that the parameters in the agricultural sector are crucial to determine the spatial configuration of economic activity. We provide an analytic treatment to the model. The location equilibria are compared with the first and second best outcomes. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.