We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and services and on the marketization of home production. The model can rationalize the observed falling or Ushaped pattern for aggregate hours, the shift from agricu...

absolute prices 156 accounting for cross-country income differences 13 The Accumulation of Capital 137 Acemoglu, Daron 5, 13–15, 74, 84 Acemoglu–Zilibotti model 14 aggregate capital-output ratio 11, 12 aggregate demand function 142, 182 aggregate dynamic analysis 52–3 aggregate effective labour supply 9 aggregate growth 8–9 aggregate labour income share 11 aggregate output, and demand 269 aggre...

Agriculture is a principal source of livelihood for the Tanzanian population. Agriculture provides more than two-thirds of employment and almost half of Tanzania‘s GDP.1 Women play an essential role in agricultural production. The sector is characterized as female-intensive, meaning that women comprise a majority of the labor force in agriculture (54%).2 Agriculture also comprises a greater par...

in this research، job opportunities have been examined among 26 productive sectors of iran's economy by using input-output table in 2001.from viewpoint of employment ،production and value added، the key sectors has been diagnosed by using mri ، elasticity of input-output table، backward and forward linkages and june's corrective methods. then، job opportunities has been analyzed among...

... and justice for all The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the bases of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal, and where applicable, political beliefs, marital status, familial or parental status, sexual orientation, or all or part of an individual...

FOR MOST COUNTRIES, HIGH PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR HAS BEEN A KEY DRIVER of structural transformation promoting long-term economic growth. Historically, low agricultural productivity growth has hindered economic growth and employment creation in the Philippines, where agriculture—which accounts for one-third of employment—remains a key sector. Climate change has the potenti...

There is much debate on the size and importance of agriculture in Hawaii’s economy. Estimates of agriculture’s contributions vary significantly, depending on what is defined as “agriculture” and on the methodol­ ogy used to develop those estimates. In this publication, we examine four methods of estimating agriculture’s eco­ nomic activity. First, the most common measure used historically in Ha...