Urban-Industrial Development and Income Differentials between Occupations

Dale E. Hathaway

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1964, vol. 46, issue 1, 56-66

Abstract: Income data from the 1960 Census of Population was used to test the hypothesis that the factor markets "work better" adjacent to areas of urban-industrial development. The medium income of males classified as operatives and males classified as farmers and farm managers were compared. The comparisons were made for counties grouped according to their distance from urban areas. The data show that income differentials between farmers and operatives did not increase as the distance from urban-industrial areas increased. In most regions of the country the labor market appeared to be operating such that the income differentials could not be attributed to the differential effects of urban-industrial development. However, the income differential between farmers and operatives was so large that a substantial disequilibrium between agricultural and nonfarm earnings is indicated.

Date: 1964
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1236472 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:46:y:1964:i:1:p:56-66.

Access Statistics for this article

American Journal of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Madhu Khanna, Brian E. Roe, James Vercammen and JunJie Wu

More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().