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The research on off-farm employment services of rural labors

2009 16th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009
The off-farm employment services of rural labors have great importance to increase the rural labors' income and lessen the difference between the urban and rural. The paper firstly analyzes the demands of the off-farm employment service and its contents: employment services, training services, rights maintenance and social security services, and ...
Guoqiang Ren, Yuhui Luo
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Perceptions of Stress Associated With Wives' Off‐Farm Employment

Home Economics Research Journal, 1988
A random sample of 323 Midwestern farm couples responded to a questionnaire designed to measure various aspects of family functioning, including lifestyle satisfaction and dyadic adjustment as well as perceptions of stress and coping strategies utilized. Although 96 percent of the women identified themselves as farmers, 38 percent were employed off the
Patricia Kain Knaub, Douglas Abbott, William H. Meredith, Anne Parkhurst   +3 more
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Off‐Farm Employment and Grain Marketable Surplus in China

Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998
This paper examines the effects of off‐farm employment on grain marketable surplus supply during the reform period in China. A theoretical framework demonstrates that farm households' supply behaviour depends not only on the profitability of farm production but also on alternative off‐farm wage opportunities of household members.
Ping Zong, John Davis
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Farm income variability and off-farm employment in Ireland

Agricultural Finance Review, 2016
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the potential relationship between farm income variability and off-farm employment decisions in the short and medium term for the case of Irish farm operators.Design/methodology/approachPanel probit models of off-farm labour supply are estimated using Teagasc National Farm Survey data for Irish farms. The
Jason Loughrey, Thia Hennessy
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Impact of Women's Off‐Farm Employment on Marital Adjustment

Home Economics Research Journal, 1988
Literature bearing on the relationship of women's employment status to couples' marital adjustment is reviewed. Three competing hypotheses—status competi tion, status enhancement, and no effects—are discussed in terms of farm couples' current context.
Linda F. Little, Patricia Kain Knaub, Patricia Wozniak, Peggy S. Draughn, Craig W. Smith, O'Neal Weeks   +5 more
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FARM WOMEN IN EUROPE: THEIR NEED FOR OFF FARM EMPLOYMENT*

Sociologia Ruralis, 1984
AbstractThe working wife is becoming the norm in European society. For some, the need to find work outside the home is purely an economic one but for many women, it is suggested that paid employment also answers needs for company, recognition and status and enhances the woman's sense of independence and self worth.
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Determinants of off-farm employment in eastern rural Nepal

1999
Stagnant agricultural productivity and low returns in farming have led rural residents in Nepal to look elsewhere for alternative or supplemental income opportunities, primarily though off-farm employment. Off-farm employment provides supplemental income to support household expenditure.
Kayastha, P., Rauniyar, Ganesh P., Parker, W.J.   +2 more
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Dynamics of Off-farm Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

2018
Off-farm income constitutes a significant share of the household livelihood portfolios across Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, the determinants of and dynamics in individuals participation in off-farm activities have not received adequate attention due to the broader weaknesses in individual-level data collection and the lack of longitudinal studies that track
Van Den Broeck, G., Kilic, T., Van Den Broeck, G., Kilic, T.   +3 more
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The determinants of off-farm employment and the impact of off-farm employment on food consumption in rural Ethiopia

2015
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Underemployment, Diversification Off-Farm Employment in Indonesia

Philippine Review of Economics and Business, 1987
This paper deals with agricultural diversification and off-farm employment as methods of reducing not only rural but also urban unemployment in Indonesia. It looks into the positive effects as well as the difficulties of pursuing agricultural diversification.
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