Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China [PDF]
This paper investigates the linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricultural ...
Yu, Xiaohua, Ji, Yueqing, Zhong, Funing
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The Effect of Human Resource Management Practices on Farm Profitability: An Initial Assessment [PDF]
Sound human resource management practices such as performance bonuses, performance reviews and feedback, and standard operating procedures allow farm managers to improve the human capital, and profitability, on the farm.
Jeffrey Hyde, Lisa Holden, Richard Stup
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Labor Pains: Valuing Seasonal versus Year-Round Labor on Organic Farms [PDF]
Although organic farm activities seem to demand year-round employees, seasonal workers dominate the organic labor market. We use the elasticity of complementarity to assess input substitutability and predict adjustments.
Lohr, Luanne, Park, Timothy A.
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Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to examine how the likely growth in the ethanol industry over the next decade will impact U.S. labor markets, especially migrant crop labor, which is largely immigrant labor.
Huffman, Wallace
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY WITHIN THE AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD: THE HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION MODEL REVISITED [PDF]
The benchmark concept is used to understand changes in farm household response to development dynamics. 1996-97 cropping seasons data from Cameroon is used to develop and test a "separate spheres" household model.
Elad, Renata L. +3 more
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A Return of the Threshing Ring? Motivations, Benefits and Challenges of Machinery and Labor Sharing Arrangements [PDF]
Cooperative approaches provide an alternative for small- and medium-sized producers to obtain the efficiencies of large farming operations and remain competitive in an increasingly concentrated agricultural industry.
Ginder, Roger +2 more
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Chinese Agricultural Household Farming Efficiency and Off-Farm Labor Supply
, 2005 This dissertation deals with the off-farm labor supply of Chinese agricultural households. The data used in this study are from the World Bank's 1995 North and Northeast China Living Standards Survey. The objectives are two fold.
Zeng, Tao
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Farming system dynamics and sustainability pathways in three districts of Jimma zone, Southwestern Ethiopia. [PDF]
PLoS OneChalchisa T +4 more
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter? [PDF]
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household ...
Ralitza Dimova +2 more
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