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More jobs and less seasonal employment in California agriculture since 1990
California Agriculture, 2023 Employment in California agriculture has increased over the past 30 years and has become less seasonal. There were an average of 404,000 farm jobs in California in 2020, 10% more than average employment of 367,000 in 1990.
Zachariah Rutledge, Philip Martin
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Extreme Heat and COVID-19: A Dual Burden for Farmworkers
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Currently, there is an extensive literature examining heat impacts on labor productivity and health, as well as a recent surge in research around COVID-19.
David López-Carr +4 more
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Land Use Policy, 2019 Smallholder producers in sub-Saharan Africa are often unable integrate into markets and access high-value opportunities by effectively participating in global chains for high-value fresh produce. Using data from a survey of large avocado farmers in Kenya,
Mulubrhan Amare +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsFarmworkers and farm owners both find themselves increasingly squeezed in the current labor landscape of Midwest agriculture, with workers facing precarious labor conditions and with owners struggling to find employees.
Marisa Lanker Paniello +1 more
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Journal of Political Economy, 2017 We show that labor market transaction costs explain why the smallest farms are more efficient than slightly larger farms in most low-income countries and that increases in machine capacity with operational scale result in the globally observed rising ...
Andrew D. Foster, M. Rosenzweig
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Labor markets and labor allocative efficiency among farm households in western Kenya [PDF]
, 2009 This paper evaluates how efficiently farm households allocate labor between farm and offfarm activities. It estimates farm and off-farm labor supply functions to determine the factors that influence labor allocation. Both the shadow wage and the off-farm
Kuyvenhoven, A. +3 more
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Impact of the Domestic Labor Market on Sustainability of Agriculture in Oman
Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2019 Undistorted factor markets are a perquisite for efficient allocation of resources and growth in production. In Oman by 2013, only 16% of households have reported agriculture as the main occupation and 53% have reported nonagricultural government ...
Hemesiri Bandara Kotagama +1 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018 Alleviating cropland misallocation is helpful for the sustainable development of agriculture. Does off-farm employment inevitably result in cropland misallocation (e.g., cropland abandonment) and threaten the sustainable development of agriculture?
Xin Deng +3 more
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FARM WORK, OFF-FARM WORK, AND HIRED FARM LABOR: ESTIMATING A DISCRETE-CHOICE MODEL OF FRENCH FARM COUPLES' LABOR DECISIONS [PDF]
We estimate jointly three types of discrete-choice labor decisions of farm couples: farm work, off-farm work, and hired farm labor. Using a 16-choice multinomial logit model, we find that operators' and spouses' farm labor are substitutes.
Kimhi, Ayal, Benjamin, Catherine
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Quality evaluations should not be taken for granted
California Agriculture, 2007 Subjective quality-evaluation errors in agriculture, such as discarding good-quality product and packing poor-quality product, can be costly to growers and workers. This study of workers and supervisors in a strawberry-plant packingshed
Gregory Encina Billikopf
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