Given the shrinking proportion of agriculture output and the growing mobility of the labor force in China, how … agricultural labor productivity develops has become an increasingly attractive topic for researchers and policy makers. This study … aims to depict the development trajectory of agricultural labor productivity in China after its WTO entry. Based on a …

structural change in agriculture to national productivity growth during 1981-2016. We estimate differentials in agricultural … the pre-reforms period, the impact of productivity improvements in agriculture on agricultural output was equated by the … new workforce entering into this sector, leading to a stagnant labor productivity trend. The labor-shift from agriculture …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …