@article{Olper:144006,
      recid = {144006},
      author = {Olper, Alessandro and Raimondi, Valentina and Bertoni,  Danilo and Cavicchioli, Daniele},
      title = {Patterns and Determinants of Off-Farm Migration: Transfer  frictions and persistency of relative income gaps},
      address = {2013-01-15},
      number = {545-2016-38716},
      series = {Factor Markets Working Paper},
      pages = {18},
      month = {Jan},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {The inter-sectoral migration of agricultural labour is a  complex but fundamental process of economic development  largely affected by the growth of agricultural productivity  and the evolution of the agricultural relative income gap.  Theory and some recent anecdotal evidence suggest that as  an effect of large fixed and sunk costs of out-farm  migration, the productivity gap between the agricultural  and non-agricultural sectors should behave  non-monotonically or following a U-shaped evolution during  economic development. Whether or not this relationship  holds true across a sample of 38 developing and developed  countries and across more than 200 EU regions was  empirically tested. Results strongly confirm this  relationship, which also emphasises the role played by  national agricultural policy.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/144006},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.144006},
}