This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a rural economy. This paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on higher migration costs due to restrictions on alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse...

Uganda?s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment away...

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-agriculture in a rural economy. We develop a theoretical model that focuses on higher migration costs due to restrictions on alienability, and identifies the possibility of a reverse...