Structural Change and Income Inequality – Agricultural Development and Inter-sectoral Dualism in the Developing World, 1960-2010

Andersson, Martin P.; Palacio Chaverra, Andrés F.

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dc.creator	Andersson, Martin P.
dc.creator	Palacio Chaverra, Andrés F.
dc.date	2016-06-15
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T19:39:20Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T19:39:20Z
dc.identifier	https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/oasis/article/view/4527
dc.identifier	10.18601/16577558.n23.06
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/100754
dc.description	Structural change consists of the long-term changes in the sectoral composition of output and employment. We introduce a structural change perspective to the study of income inequality in 27 countries of the developing world for the period 1960-2010. The service sector has become the main employer, but the agricultural sector is central to the income distribution because poverty is mostly rural, and the labor surplus is high. We decompose the sectoral composition of aggregate labor productivity at the country level, divide the countries into agrarian, dual (beginner, intermediate and advanced), and mature economies and use the inter-sectoral productivity gap to test the effect of structural change on income inequality. We confirm increases in agricultural productivity everywhere and find that the inter-sectoral gap is positively associated with income inequality. The effect is negligible in agrarian and advanced economies but powerful in dual beginner economies: an increase of 1% in the inter-sectoral gap increases income inequality by 0.5%. The effect peters out in dual intermediate economies and disappears completely in dual advanced economies. Finally, redistribution has been the key to compensating the losers in the income changes, particularly for those entering the non-agricultural economy.	es-ES
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dc.language	eng
dc.language	spa
dc.publisher	Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales	es-ES
dc.relation	https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/oasis/article/view/4527/5202
dc.relation	https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/oasis/article/view/4527/5455
dc.relation	https://revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/oasis/article/view/4527/9073
dc.source	OASIS; No. 23 (2016): Enero-Junio; 99-122	en-US
dc.source	OASIS; Núm. 23 (2016): Enero-Junio; 99-122	es-ES
dc.source	2346-2132
dc.source	1657-7558
dc.subject	Structural change	es-ES
dc.subject	income inequality	es-ES
dc.subject	labor surplus	es-ES
dc.subject	dualism	es-ES
dc.subject	redistribution	es-ES
dc.title	Structural Change and Income Inequality – Agricultural Development and Inter-sectoral Dualism in the Developing World, 1960-2010	es-ES
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