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The impact of wage differentials on choosing to work in agriculture

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Based on a model of industry choice and wage determination, a 1% increase in the relative wage in agriculture increases the probability that a nonurban male with no more than a ninth-grade education works in agriculture by 3.37% at the sample mean and by 1.3% when averaged over the entire sample. A 10% increase in wages may increase the proportion of those males who choose to work in agriculture by nearly a quarter.
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  • Perloff, Jeffrey M., 1990. "The impact of wage differentials on choosing to work in agriculture," CUDARE Working Papers 47251, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
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    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.47251
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