@article{Yamauchi:172037,
      recid = {172037},
      author = {Yamauchi, Hiroshi},
      title = {Structural Variations of Agriculture in the Pacific},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {1987-06},
      number = {968-2016-75376},
      pages = {14},
      year = {1987},
      abstract = {Agricultural shares of output and employment in thirteen  Pacific basin countries
are analyzed with reference to a  global baseline for 1980. Per-capita output
parity ratios  are lower in the ASEAN, ANICs, and Japan as compared to  their
trading partners in North America and Oceania. Wide  differences in land-labor
ratios influence the directions  of technological change, economies of scale, and
dynamic  comparative advantage. Differential changes in the partial  productivities
of land and labor between the high and  middle income economies suggest
that there has been a  narrowing of the gap in land productivities and a  widening
of the gap in labor productivities across the  Pacific. The implication is that there
has been a  regressive international impact on wages for farm labor.  Further, since
agriculture's share of land resources does  not tend to fall as fast as its share of
output and labor,  increasing structural imbalance in terms of differential  land
rents to agriculture vis-a-vis non-agriculture results  in greater adjustment pressures
on the property and derived  institutional systems that control natural
resource  allocation decisions. The results are consistent with the  heavy adjustment
burdens that agriculture and developing  economies have been bearing as a
result of expanding trade  and capital flows, and the need to focus more attention
on  the structure, functioning, and performance of the  different institutional systems
that control resource  allocation decisions in these countries.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/172037},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.172037},
}