Measuring factor income shares at the sectoral level

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On the spatial economic impact of global warming (2015, neutral): “Estimates of labor shares vary between 0.45 and 0.7 (Valentinyi and Herrendorf, 2008; Herrendorf and Valentinyi, 2012).”
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution (2016, background): “The higher land-to-labor ratio has a relatively modest eﬀect on yields per worker, however, as α , the output elasticity of land, is around 0.2; see Valentinyi and Herrendorf (2008).”
The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences (2014, positive): “…parameters (a, ρ, θ) to match three data targets: (1) a share of employment in agriculture of 2.5%, (2) an agricultural land income share of 18% (see Table 2 in Valentinyi and Herrendorf, 2008), and (3) a disparity in the capital to land ratio between the minimum and maximum farm sizes of 84.8.”
Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts in a Growth Model with Relative Price Effects and Non-Gorman Preferences (2011, background): “Valentinyi and Herrendorf (2008) estimate labor income shares for gross manufacturing output, gross service output, overall consumption and total gross output that are all between 0.65 and 0.67.”
The effects of land markets on resource allocation and agricultural productivity (2017, positive): “Valentinyi and Herrendorf (2008) find that in the United States, the capital, labor, and land shares in agriculture are 0.36, 0.46, and 0.18, respectively.”