Population growth and real wages of agricultural labourers in Bangladesh
研究了孟加拉国农村人口增长对农业劳动者实际工资的长期影响，发现人口增长既有负向的劳动力供给效应，也有正向的劳动力需求效应，后者有助于解释人口密度高和增长快的地区工资下降较慢的现象。
A long‐run negative impact of population growth upon real wages is neither theoretically self‐evident nor, in the case of rural Bangladesh, empirically clear‐cut. In addition to its negative ‘labour supply effect’, population growth may have a positive ‘labour demand effect’ upon wages. The latter may help to explain why Bangladeshi districts with higher rural population densities have higher agricultural wages, and why districts with more rapid population growth in the first half of this century subsequently experienced slower‐than‐average real wage declines. An investigation of agricultural growth and agrarian structure as mediating variables in the population‐wage relation indicates that changes in average operational holding size, inequality of landholdings, and the extent and nature of tenancy contributed to this result.