The Role of Off‐Farm Labor Participation Decisions of Married Farm Couples on Farm Direct Marketing in Taiwan

Chang, Hung‐Hao; He, Jinhai; Saeliw, Kannika

doi:10.1111/deve.12118

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“…Prior research has documented that the quality of farm household labor is heterogeneous and that the principal operator's and spouse's supply decisions for off‐farm work are jointly determined (e.g., Abdulai & Delgado, ; Chang, He, & Saeliw, ; Huffman & Lange, ). For simplicity, we treat the quality of labor as homogeneous both in the theoretical model and the empirical implementation.…”

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Off‐farm work and technical efficiency on U.S. dairies

Sabasi

Shumway

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2019

Agricultural Economics

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In this study, we investigate the impact of an increase in farm households' off-farm work on technical efficiency (TE) of U.S. dairies. We present a theoretical framework that implies that an increase in farm household off-farm work decreases TE. We use two nationally-representative samples of U.S. dairies (2010 and 2005 Agricultural Resource Management Surveys) and a parametric approach (stochastic frontier analysis) to empirically test the hypothesis. Results are generally consistent with the hypothesis and show that an increase in off-farm work by the farm household is associated with a significant decrease in TE. In addition, results show that there is a statistically significant difference in TE between small, medium, and large farms. Small farms are associated with significantly higher off-farm work and have lower TE than large farms, which implies that less off-farm work by households with larger farms is at least partially responsible for the evidence of economies of scale in the U.S. dairy industry.

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Off‐farm work and technical efficiency on U.S. dairies

Sabasi

Shumway

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2019

Agricultural Economics

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“…Rural household members allocate their labor hours between farm and nonfarm sectors in order to reduce income risk by diversifying employment either to maintain cash earnings and/or to finance farm investments. Rural economy increasingly interacts with external labor markets and there exists a positive correlation between farm income and nonfarm employment as well as education and employment in the nonfarm sector (Mishra and Goodwin, 1997;Berdegué et al, 2001;Chang et al, 2017). This paper investigates how an individual in the rural household chooses among alternative employment options and identifies the determinants of employment choice in rural areas of Pakistan.…”

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An Investigation of Employment Choice in the Rural Sector of Pakistan

Jamil¹

2021

Forman J. Econ. Stud.

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Agricultural sector remained the focus of policy makers in an attempt to improve the rural incomes and reducing rural poverty among highly populated but less developed countries. The paper analyzes the workers’ choice between farm and nonfarm sectors in the rural sector. The study provides a theoretical framework where the employment decision of rural household member in the farm and nonfarm sectors depends on its physical assets including landholding and human capital development. The empirical analysis uses data for Pakistan obtained from PIHS 2001-02 and PSLM 2010-11. The results of the empirical model show that landholding is the major factor that drives the individual towards the farm activity while, education and public policy incentives including connectivity, market access and information spur the nonfarm employment. The findings of the study favor the development of nonfarm sector in order to cope with excessively increasing number of rural semi-skilled young workers. The findings suggest that focus of the policy should be on education and training to provide an enabling environment for sustained earnings of individuals. Nonfarm sector employment may ensure sustainable income of the rural labor as well as production of exportable surplus from rural to urban areas. This is inevitable due to poor economic conditions of rural workers and limited absorption capacity of farm and the urban job markets in the country.

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