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THE DETERMINANTS OF PARTICIPATION DECISION IN OFF-FARM WORK: THE IOWA CASE [PDF]

This paper examines factors affecting the role of individual, farm production, family finance, and regional characteristics in affecting labor force decisions by farm households.
Orazem, Peter F., Kwon, Chul-Woo, Otto, Daniel M.   +2 more
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
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Everglades Farm Labor Supply Center, November 1946

The school and playground of the Everglades Farm Labor Supply Center in November 1946. It operated under the Production and Marketing Administration's Labor Branch.

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Revealing an Equitable Income Allocation among Dairy Farm Partnerships [PDF]

We formulate a method to determine an equitable division of dairy farm partnership income when partners provide unequal amounts of capital, labor, and management and empirically estimate this relationship.
Dressler, Jonathan B., Tauer, Loren W.
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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Immigration reform and California agriculture

California Agriculture, 2013
Philip Martin
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PROPOSED IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM & FARM LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES [PDF]

The issue of legalization for unauthorized farm workers is examined in this paper. The analytical framework uses a treatment effects approach which casts legalization as a treatment under the assumption of heterogeneity.
Emerson, Robert D., Walters, Lurleen M., Iwai, Nobuyuki   +2 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Public Health Insurance, Non-Farm Labor Supply, and Farmers' Income: Evidence from New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019
Liu J, Lu Y, Xu Q, Yang Q.
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Demand for On-Farm Permanent Hired Labor in Family Holdings: A Comment [PDF]

This comment critically discusses the theoretical and empirical treatment of corner solutions in the analysis of labor decisions on farm households.
Kimhi, Ayal
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