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Agricultural Productivity and Non-Farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh

dc.contributor.author Shilpi, Forhad
dc.contributor.author Emran, Shahe
dc.date.accessioned 2016-06-14T19:30:43Z
dc.date.available 2016-06-14T19:30:43Z
dc.date.issued 2016-05
dc.description.abstract This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural transformation of non-farm activities. To guide the empirical work, this paper develops a general equilibrium model that emphasizes distinctions among non-farm activities in terms of tradable-non-tradable and the formal-informal characteristics. The model shows that when a significant portion of village income is spent on town/urban goods, restricting empirical analysis to the village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in education and health services. For formal employment, the effect of agricultural productivity growth on employment is found to be largest in the samples that include urban areas and rural towns compared with rural areas alone. Agricultural productivity growth is found to induce structural transformation within the services sector with employment in formal/skilled services growing at a faster pace than that of low skilled services. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26401889/agricultural-productivity-non-farm-employment-evidence-bangladesh
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24520
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7685
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject JOBS
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subject FARM GROWTH
dc.subject MOTIVATION
dc.subject RURAL INEQUALITY
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject ACCOUNTING
dc.subject PRODUCTION
dc.subject UTILITY FUNCTIONS
dc.subject SUPPLY CURVE
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT SHARE
dc.subject INFORMAL SECTOR
dc.subject STRUCTURAL CHANGE
dc.subject INCOME
dc.subject LABOR ALLOCATION
dc.subject INTEREST RATE
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject TOTAL LABOR FORCE
dc.subject INFORMATION
dc.subject LABOR FORCE
dc.subject DOMESTIC MARKET
dc.subject ELASTICITY
dc.subject POLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subject WELFARE
dc.subject OPTIMIZATION
dc.subject EFFECTS
dc.subject POOR PEOPLE
dc.subject EQUILIBRIUM
dc.subject VARIABLES
dc.subject RURAL POPULATION
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE
dc.subject MEASURES
dc.subject ACTIVE LABOR
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL WAGE
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject DISAGGREGATED ANALYSIS
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT LEVEL
dc.subject DOMESTIC WORKERS
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
dc.subject LABOR MARKET
dc.subject CROP YIELD
dc.subject TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS
dc.subject RURAL HOUSEHOLD
dc.subject IRRIGATION EXPANSION
dc.subject RURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT LEVELS
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject RURAL INCOME
dc.subject FIRING COSTS
dc.subject INCOME GROWTH
dc.subject FOOD PRICE
dc.subject FARM EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject NON-FARM EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject EXTERNALITIES
dc.subject INDUSTRIALIZATION
dc.subject UNEMPLOYED
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL WAGES
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT COMPOSITION
dc.subject MARKETS
dc.subject ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject ECONOMIC CENSUSES
dc.subject FARM WORKERS
dc.subject LABOR
dc.subject TOTAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject UTILITY
dc.subject RURAL VILLAGES
dc.subject FARM SECTOR
dc.subject EXPORT MARKET
dc.subject FOOD PRODUCTION
dc.subject UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subject CROP YIELDS
dc.subject LABOR COST
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
dc.subject CONSUMPTION
dc.subject GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject OPPORTUNITY COST
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
dc.subject WORKERS
dc.subject WAGES
dc.subject POLICIES
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
dc.subject CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subject DOMESTIC MARKETS
dc.subject REAL WAGE
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES
dc.subject LABOR DEMAND
dc.subject PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS
dc.subject DIVISION OF LABOR
dc.subject FARM ACTIVITIES
dc.subject DEMAND
dc.subject UTILITY FUNCTION
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
dc.subject RURAL ECONOMY
dc.subject ECONOMY
dc.subject AGRICULTURE
dc.subject CONSUMERS
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
dc.subject RURAL
dc.subject RURAL TOWNS
dc.subject MEASUREMENT
dc.subject WAGE RATE
dc.subject CROP SCIENTISTS
dc.subject LABOR MOBILITY
dc.subject PRODUCTION FUNCTION
dc.subject ECONOMICS
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL YIELDS
dc.subject MACROECONOMIC SHOCKS
dc.subject TRADE
dc.subject GDP
dc.subject GOODS
dc.subject THEORY
dc.subject GROWTH RATE
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL MARKET
dc.subject INVESTMENT
dc.subject MARKET EQUILIBRIUM
dc.subject IRRIGATION
dc.subject RISK
dc.subject EXPANSION OF IRRIGATION
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject POVERTY
dc.subject SUPPLY
dc.subject INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
dc.subject LABOR SUPPLY
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject POOR
dc.subject FOOD PROCESSING
dc.subject LABOR MARKETS
dc.subject OUTCOMES
dc.subject WATER FOR IRRIGATION
dc.subject PRICES
dc.subject LABOR REGULATIONS
dc.subject LABOR MIGRATION
dc.subject MARKET WAGE
dc.subject NON-FARM SECTOR
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subject INEQUALITY
dc.subject EXCLUSION RESTRICTION
dc.subject EMPLOYEES
dc.title Agricultural Productivity and Non-Farm Employment en
dc.title.subtitle Evidence from Bangladesh en
dc.type Working Paper en
dc.type Document de travail fr
dc.type Documento de trabajo es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crossref.title Agricultural Productivity and Non-Farm Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh
okr.date.disclosure 2016-05-24
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/05/26401889/agricultural-productivity-non-farm-employment-evidence-bangladesh
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-7685
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b08435e8e8_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 26401889
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okr.language.supported en
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okr.region.administrative South Asia
okr.region.country Bangladesh
okr.topic Social Protections and Labor :: Employment and Unemployment
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topic Social Protections and Labor :: Labor Markets
okr.topic Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Economic Theory & Research
okr.topic Urban Development :: Rural Urban Linkages
okr.unit Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
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