The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925?1941

Lee J. Alston and Timothy James Hatton ()

The Journal of Economic History, 1991, vol. 51, issue 01, pages 83-99

Abstract: We estimate the monthly and hourly earnings ratio between agricultural and manufacturing laborers, adjusting for compensation received in-kind and differences in the cost of living. Our results indicate that prior to the Great Depression, agricultural compensation was similar to that in manufacturing within geographic regions, and a substantial earnings gap in favor of manufacturing emerged in the early thirties.

Date: 1991
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