discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …

stay in agriculture …

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today’s agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …