Agricultural wages in Bangladesh: Whatdothe figures really show?
反驳了Palmer‐Jones对孟加拉国农业工资趋势的质疑，认为Boyce和Ravallion的结论更可靠：工资对米价反应迟钝，农业增长未提高实际工资，1960-70年代呈下降趋势，1980年代中期虽有回升但尚不能视为逆转。
Using new data and a different model, Palmer‐Jones [1993] has questioned the conclusions of Boyce and Ravallion [1991] concerning the evolution over time of agricultural wages in Bangladesh. I argue that Palmer‐Jones's model is unconvincing and that the main conclusions of Boyce and Ravallion are far more robust than he suggests. Wages respond sluggishly to rice prices. Bangladesh's (limited) agricultural growth has not raised the real wage rate, which was on a downward trend for most of the 1960s and 1970s. The mid‐1980s saw higher real wages, though this cannot yet be deemed a reversal of the previous trend.