Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...

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Prepared for Panel 30-3, Group Mobilization, Partisanship, Ideas, and Leadership: The Los Angeles and New YorkMayoral Elections of 2005,ʺ September 2, 2006 at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia