The Role of Productivity, Transportation Costs, and Barriers to Intersectoral Mobility in Structural Transformation /

The process of economic development is characterized by substantial reallocations of resources across sectors. In this paper, we construct a multi-sector model in which there are barriers to the movement of labor from low-productivity traditional agriculture to modern sectors. With the barrier in pl...

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Autore principale: Karayalcin, Cem
Altri autori: Pintea, Mihaela
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/091
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF