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Farm Income Variability and the Supply of Off-Farm Labor

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1997
AbstractIf farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off‐farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off‐farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off‐farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm‐specific
Ashok Mishra, Barry K Goodwin
exaly   +3 more sources

Farm income, market wages, and off-farm labour supply

Empirica, 1991
In most developed countries we observe an increasing share of part-time farming at the expense of full-time farmers. In the present paper, we develop a theoretical labour supply model which accounts for the specific decision problem of a farmer. The empirical analysis uses the ordered probit and a Tobit model to explain labour supply behaviour for a ...
Pfaffermayr, Michael   +2 more
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Risk Management and the Role of Off-farm Income

2011
The majority of farm households in OECD countries earn more off-farm income than farm income, even including government payments. While this is a well recognized fact its implications for risk management have not been well recognized. Current efforts to reform farm support have focused on the variability of farm household income and largely ignored the
Freshwater, David, Jette-Nantel, Simon
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Off-Farm Work and Income Inequality in Rural Brazil

2021
Session ID 4776, Paper ...
Braga, Cicero   +5 more
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Is off-farm income driving on-farm investment? [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
National Farm Survey data for Ireland shows that in the ten year period from 1995 to 2005 average farm incomes declined by almost 17 percent while net new investment increased by almost 30 percent in real terms. This paper explores the factors affecting farmers’ decisions to invest in farming.
Thia Hennessy, Mark O’ Brien
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