Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration

Pierre M. Picard; Dao Zhi Zeng

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.03.002

Agricultural sector and industrial agglomeration

Pierre M. Picard, Dao Zhi Zeng

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Abstract

In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. Our conclusions show that the parameters in the agricultural sector are crucial to determine the spatial configuration of economic activity. We provide an analytic treatment to the model. The location equilibria are compared with the first and second best outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	75-106
Number of pages	32
Journal	Journal of Development Economics
Volume	77
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.03.002
Publication status	Published - 2005 Jun
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agglomeration
Agricultural sector
Labor market
Migration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Development
Economics and Econometrics

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