scholarly journals How does land fragmentation affect off-farm labor supply: panel data evidence from China

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Jia ◽  
Martin Petrick
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Land Fragmentation

Agricultural disaster programs and family farm labor supply in Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Wu ◽  
Hung-Hao Chang ◽  
Lih-Chyun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
On Farm

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of disaster relief payments on on-farm and off-farm labor supply of farm households in Taiwan. The effectiveness of the policy amendments of the disaster relief assistance programs is also examined.Design/methodology/approachA unique sample of 124,827 persons living in the family farm household in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 was used. This sample was merged into the township-level administrative profile of all of the recipients of agricultural disaster relief payments from the Natural Disaster Program in Taiwan. A fixed effect panel data model was estimated to analyze the impacts of disaster relief payments on each individual’s labor supply decision.FindingsNatural disaster payments significantly reduced individual’s propensity to work on the farm. Moreover, the higher of the payments, the higher(lower) possibility of the individual to engage in on-farm(off-farm) work. In addition, an increase in the amount of disaster payments can increase the on-farm labor supply of family farm members.Research limitations/implicationsDue to data unavailability, an individual-level panel data set is not used. Future studies can check the robustness of the finding using an individual-level panel data set.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the limited empirical evidence on agricultural relief programs.

Agricultural Labor Supply

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra E. Hill ◽  
Izaac Ornelas ◽  
J. Edward Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Farm Work

The labor supply response to agricultural wages is critical to the viability of crop production in high-income countries, which hire a largely foreign farm work force, as well as in low-income countries, where domestic workers move off the farm as the agricultural transformation unfolds. Modeling agricultural labor supply is more challenging than modeling the supply of other agricultural inputs or of labor to other sectors of the economy owing to unique features of agricultural production and farm labor markets. Data and econometric challenges abound, and estimates of agricultural labor supply elasticities are sparse. This review explains the importance and challenges of modeling farm labor supply and describes researchers’ efforts to address these challenges. It summarizes estimates of agricultural labor supply elasticities over the last 80 years, provides insights into variation in these estimates, identifies priority areas for future research, and reviews the most influential empirical work related to this important topic. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 13 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

scholarly journals Implications of Water Scarcity for Water Productivity and Farm Labor

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
James F. Booker ◽  
W. Scott Trees
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Water Productivity ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Response To Water

Increasing water scarcity causes a variety of pressures on agricultural production given current and growing food demands. This paper seeks to add to our understanding of water scarcity adaptations by explicitly addressing linkages between water scarcity, water productivity, cropping choices, and farm labor. We challenge the widespread claim that tightening foreign (especially Mexican) labor supply will necessarily result in less labor-intensive crop choices. Instead, by linking water scarcity and farm labor through the lens of water productivity we illustrate scenarios under which climate and technological change result in greater future labor demand in agriculture, including temporary and seasonal workers, largely due to water productivity increases resulting from switching to more labor-intensive crops. We conclude that a focus on crop choices is central to understanding changes in water productivity, labor demand, and technological innovations in response to water scarcity.

The Off-Farm Labor Supply of Farmers: The Case of the Chiang Mai Valley of Thailand

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaffa Machnes Rief ◽  
Susan Hill Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Chiang Mai
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