Agricultural price distortions

The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy (Volume 4): A Synthesis of the Economics in Developing Countries by Maurice Schiff and Alberto Valdes (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) provides agricultural tax rates by crop for various developing countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ghana, South Korea, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Zambia) annually from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. See Appendix of the book.

As an update to this study, Anderson and Valenzuela (2008) at the World Bank estimate 30 commodity-specific indicators of the policy-induced divergence between domestic and international prices in 68 countries since 1955. This data is used by Block (2010) to explain the agricultural total factor productivity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Labor Flow Data for 6 Latin American countries

Constructed by researchers at the Inter-American Development Bank. The data is available at the ISIC-2-digit sector level for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay from 1978 to 2001.

See this page for details and downloading the data.

Used by Francisco A. Gallego and Jose A. Tessada (2007) "Sudden Stops and Reallocation: Evidence from Labor Market Flows in Latin America" to estimate the impact of financial crises on job creation and destruction.