TY - BOOK ID - 85504866 TI - Structural Transformation and the Agricultural Wage Gap PY - 2017 SN - 1484336402 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Wages. KW - Compensation KW - Departmental salaries KW - Earnings KW - Pay KW - Remuneration KW - Salaries KW - Wage-fund KW - Wage rates KW - Working class KW - Income KW - Labor costs KW - Compensation management KW - Cost and standard of living KW - Prices KW - Wages KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Agribusiness KW - Industries: Manufacturing KW - Human Capital KW - Skills KW - Occupational Choice KW - Labor Productivity KW - Wage Level and Structure KW - Wage Differentials KW - Agricultural Labor Markets KW - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility KW - Promotion KW - Agriculture: General KW - General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data) KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Labor Economics: General KW - Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Agricultural economics KW - Manufacturing industries KW - Agricultural sector KW - Wage gap KW - Manufacturing KW - Economic sectors KW - Agricultural industries KW - Labor economics KW - Brazil UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85504866 AB - A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors. Using Brazilian household surveys and administrative panel data, I use information on workers who switch sectors to decompose the drivers of this gap. I find that most of the gap is explained by differences in worker composition. The evidence speaks against the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently proposed Roy models of inter-sector sorting. A calibrated sorting model of structural transformation can account for the wage gap level observed and its decline as the economy transitioned out of agriculture. ER -