substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms … by almost 30 percentage points and depressing agricultural productivity by more than 10 percent. Quantitatively, land …

In this paper, we document the reallocation of employment over time between agriculture, manufacturing, and services … (the process of structural transformation) and the growth rate of sectoral labor productivity across countries. We find … for some countries. We investigate whether sectoral differences in labor productivity can account for differences in the …