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Highlights • The rural economy has increasingly diversified into the non-farm sector nationwide.• Real wages have increased rapidly and the inter-sectoral wage gap has widened.• Small farm sizes have not… Click to show full abstract
Highlights • The rural economy has increasingly diversified into the non-farm sector nationwide.• Real wages have increased rapidly and the inter-sectoral wage gap has widened.• Small farm sizes have not obstructed mechanization nor the uptake of labor-saving pesticides.• The longstanding inverse farm size-yield relationship has steadily attenuated over time.• Human capital accumulation is the key correlate of improvements in rural household well-being.
Keywords:
labor;
agriculture labor;
rapid structural;
intertemporal evolution;
labor rapid;
evolution agriculture
Journal Title: Food Policy
Year Published: 2020
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Journal Title: Food Policy
Year Published: 2020
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