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Title: Agricultural Transformation and Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S., 1940-1970

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: Between 1850 and 1950, the United States saw a massive decrease in the percentage of the workforce employed in agriculture, declining from approximately 45% to under 10%. Long and Ferrie (2015) have shown that rapid exit from the agricultural sector from 1850 through 1880 contributed to an increase in occupational mobility during that time period, although their results suggest that mobility subsequently declined, while Hilger (2017) finds a relationship between both income and equality levels and increases in economic mobility between 1940 and 1970. Hilger’s result is driven largely by the fact that mobility and incomes/equality rose most quickly in the southeast, a region that has traditionally lagged behind the northeast and midwest in economic dynamism for a variety of reasons. This region also lagged behind the rest of the country in experiencing the movement out of agricultural employment that Long and Ferrie document, so it experienced this change . . .

Url: https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea18/274162.html

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Authors: Smith, Timothy

Conference Name: 2018 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting

Publisher Location: Washington, D.C.

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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