The trend of the real wage of agricultural labourers in Bangladesh during the last half a century was influenced by two opposing forces: technological changes that raised the productivity of the farm land through high yield crops and multiple cropping, which also raised the productivity of labour, and a rapid growth of agricultural labour supply working in the opposite direction. This resulted in the stagnation of real wages for nearly four decades. Only when the addition to agricultural labour supply became persistently negative around the middle of the first decade of the new millennium, did the real wage show a trend increase.

https://doi.org/10.57138/PAEE5676

Date of Publication 

August 2018

Keywords

Productivity, Agricultural and Industrial Real Wage, Income Distribution, Agricultural Labour, Relative Prices

JEL Classification Code

O33, Q15, Q16

Recommended Citation

Taslim, M. A., & Taslim, Q. N. (2018). Productivity and agricultural real wage in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Development Studies, 41(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.57138/PAEE5676