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Regional Differences in the Contribution of Off-Farm Work to Income Inequality [PDF]
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1995 This paper uses the concept of the Gini Coefficient and data from the 1991 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (FCRS) to measure the role of off-farm income and that of other income sources in the size distribution of farm operator households' total personal income.
El-Osta, Hisham S. +2 more
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Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus
Agriculture, 2018 Off-farm employment is an important strategy for complementing farm household income and maintaining rural livelihoods. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the effect of farm-level and regional-level factors on off-farm ...
Elias Giannakis +2 more
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International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2019 Addressing issues of agricultural sustainability and vulnerability to poverty under climate change are major challenges to development in the 21st century.
Gazali Issahaku, Awal Abdul-Rahaman
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Labour-use pattern on Swiss dairy farms
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2013 : Analysing the labour-use pattern on Swiss dairy farms, we apply a typology scheme with two criteria: on-farm wage labour and off-farm family labour.
Markus LIPS, Dierk SCHMID, Pierrick JAN
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Once part-timer always part-timer? Causes for persistence in off farm work state of farmers
Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2017 Off-farm labour participation is an important way in which farm households adapt their labour resources to farm labour needs, and is often viewed as an income integration and an insurance against risk.
Alessandro Corsi, Cristina Salvioni
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Simultaneous Decisions to Undertake Off-Farm Work and Straw Return: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Land, 2023 Using a sample of 1166 maize-planting farmers from Liaoning province in China, in this paper, we provide a new explanation for the slow-proliferation situation of straw return.
Jutao Zeng, Jie Lyu
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Land tenure in tea farming and exploring factors influencing a rural household’s decision to exit or enter farming [PDF]
Ciência Rural, 2020 : Self-operated land and operated by tenure may affect the sustainability of farming in a region. This study planned to analyze how rural households switch away from tea farming even they have parental land, and how landless access the land for tea ...
Shamsheer ul Haq +2 more
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Explanation of Off-farm Work Participation in Rural Pakistan [PDF]
The Pakistan Development Review, 1995 The role of off-farrn employment in augmenting household fann income in the developing countries is of special significance, given the land and water resource constraints and the alanning. rate of population growth. This study focuses on the rural household in Pakistan in an effort to understand the economic and social factors ...
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Agriculture, 2023 The practical implementation of the employment promotion effect of the digital economy is closely linked to rural laborers’ digital skills (DS). Therefore, this study uses the Mprobit model to empirically test the impact of DS on rural labor employment ...
Xiumei Wang +3 more
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2023 In response to survival challenges, small farms in the United States undertake decisions to minimize downside risk or maximize gross revenue.
Aditya R. Khanal, Renu Ojha
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