market restrictions on wages and its spatial pattern. The empirical specification is derived from a general equilibrium model … that predicts that the adverse effects of land market restrictions on wages will be less in remote locations. For … sub-district. The results show that land restrictions reduce wages substantially, and this effect is smaller in remote …

on manufacturing and services employment, rural wages, and per capita household consumption. The evidence on the … alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse structural change where the share of nonagricultural employment declines … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

restrictions increase costs of migration out of villages. The testable prediction of collateral effect is that both wages and labor … increases wages. In contrast, if land restrictions work primarily through higher migration costs, labor force participation … increases, while wages decline. For identification, this paper exploits a natural experiment in Sri Lanka where historical …