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Ratio of farmworkers to farm jobs in California increased to 2.3 in 2016

California Agriculture, 2019
California Employment Development Department data suggest that almost 5% of California's workers were employed in agriculture, in 2016. In that year, monthly average employment in agriculture was 425,400, but the number of workers with at least one job ...
Philip Martin, Brandon Hooker, Marc Stockton   +2 more
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Can Labor-Market Imperfections Explain Changes in the Inverse Farm Size–Productivity Relationship? Longitudinal Evidence from Rural India

Land Economics, 2016
We use a large national farm panel from India from 1982 to 2008 to show that the inverse relationship between farm size and output per unit of land weakened significantly over time.
K. Deininger, Songqing Jin, Yan-Yan Liu, S. Singh   +3 more
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Space, Government Payments, and Off-Farm Labor Response of Principal Farm Operators: A County-Level Analysis [PDF]

We examine the effects of space and government payments on off-farm employment among principal farm operators for the entire US as well as for ERS/USDA farm resource regions.
Findeis, Jill L., Shrestha, Sundar S.
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Rural-urban Migration Decisions in China: Evidence from Rural Household Panel Data

East Asian Economic Review, 2004
This paper analyzes the household's off-farm labor response to risk using the Research Center on the Rural Economy (RCRE) panel data in China. This paper aims to find out whether the off-farm labor market, especially the migrant labor market, could be ...
Kyeongwon Yoo
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Labor shortages and farmer adaptation strategies

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Labor shortages are a growing challenge for U.S. agricultural producers, but little is known about farmers' adaptation strategies. We estimate the statistical relationship between farm labor shortages and adaptation strategies among California farmers ...
M. Win, Zachariah Rutledge, M. Maredia
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Rising wages, mechanization, and the substitution between capital and labor: evidence from small scale farm system in China

, 2016
This article aims to investigate major factors that led to the observed pace of mechanization and the substitution between labor and machines in rural China.
Xiao-Bing Wang, Futoshi Yamauchi, Ji-Kun Huang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE IMPACT OF LOCAL LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS ON THE OFF-FARM EARNINGS OF FARM OPERATORS [PDF]

Local labor market characteristics are theoretically relevant to the determination of off-farm earnings of farm operators, but the empirical analysis of these effects has been hindered by a lack of appropriate data.
McNamara, Kevin T., Gunter, Lewell F.
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Rural Shadow Wages and Youth Agricultural Labor Supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from Farm Panel Data

Research in Labor Economics, 2017
The majority of the youth in Ethiopia live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Using gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and prospects of ...
T. Sakketa, Nicolas Gerber
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Barriers to rural households’ participation in low-skilled off-farm labor markets: theory and empirical results from northern Ethiopia

SpringerPlus, 2013
Promotion of low-skilled off-farm rural labor market participation can be an important strategy to improve livelihoods and food security of the poor in developing countries.
Bharat P. Bhatta, Torbjørn Årethun
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FARM LABOR: KEY CONCEPTUAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES ON THE ROUTE TO BETTER FARM COST AND RETURN ESTIMATES [PDF]

This paper examines methods frequently used by agricultural economists to measure the cost of farm labor, including operator and other unpaid, and to provide insights for improving them. The tradition is broken of treating labor and management separately,
Wallace HUFFMAN
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