Wages, Human Capital, and Barriers to Structural Transformation

Name: Wages, Human Capital, and Barriers to Structural Transformation
Published: 2021-09-29
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Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University

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Project Citation:

Schoellman, Todd, and Herrendorf, Berthold. Wages, Human Capital, and Barriers to Structural Transformation. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-09-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E151141V1

Project Description

Summary:

We document for 13 countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia) that average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. Moreover, agriculture has less educated workers and lower Mincer returns.

We view these findings through the lens of a multi-sector model in which workers differ

in observed and unobserved characteristics and sectors differ in their human–capital

intensities. We derive expressions for the implied barriers to the reallocation of labor

out of agriculture. We find that in our sample these barriers are considerably smaller

than what the macro–development literature has argued.

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Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1979 – 2013

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