Economic Development and the Decline of Agricultural Employment

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Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “However, development processes typically go hand in hand with declining shares of agricultural sectors’ gross domestic product (GDP) contributions and decreasing employment in agricultural sectors (Chenery & Syrquin, 1975; Foster & Rosenzweig, 2007; Kuznets, 1957; Üngör, 2013).”
Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution (2016, background): “…level, and several recent papers have made use of natural experiments (e.g., Bustos et al. (2013) and Hornbeck and Keskin (2011)) or structural estimation (e.g., Foster and Rosenzweig (2004), Foster and Rosenzweig (2007)) to look at the cross-sectoral impacts of shocks to agricultural productivity.”
Why is Female Labour Force Participation Declining so Sharply in India (2014, background): “For a review, see Killingsworth and Heckman (1986). The traditional framework for analysing the decision of women to join the labour market goes back to Mincer (1962), who considers that agents allocate their time between leisure, work at home and work in the market.”