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Modern sector enlargement or traditional sector enrichment?

Author(s) -

Gary S. Fields

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

journal of population economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.894

H-Index - 71

eISSN - 1432-1475

pISSN - 0933-1433

DOI - 10.1007/bf00168270

Subject(s) - resizing , unemployment , economics , sector model , marginal product , product (mathematics) , labour economics , tertiary sector of the economy , primary sector of the economy , economic sector , business , economic policy , economic growth , production (economics) , economy , macroeconomics , agriculture , european union , ecology , biology , geometry , mathematics

This paper considers how GNP would change if development resources are allocated in alternative ways, taking account of induced migration. The preferred allocation of development resources between sectors is shown to depend on the amounts of modern sector enlargement and traditional sector enrichment that could be achieved under alternative resource allocations and the labor market effects of each.

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