scholarly journals Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Fink ◽  
B. Kelsey Jack ◽  
Felix Masiye
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Agricultural Labor

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 Nonconvexities, Retirement, and the Elasticity of Labor Supply

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 1445-1462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogerson ◽  
Johanna Wallenius
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Elasticity Of Substitution ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Life Cycle Models

We consider two life cycle models of labor supply that use nonconvexities to generate retirement. In each case we derive a link between hours worked prior to retirement, the intertemporal elasticity of substitution for labor (IES), and the size of the nonconvexities. This link is robust to allowing for credit constraints and human capital accumulation by younger workers and suggests values for the IES that are .75 or higher. (JEL D91, J22, J24, J26)

CREDIT CONSTRAINTS AND LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM BANK BRANCHING DEREGULATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kien Dao Bui ◽  
Ejindu S. Ume
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Credit Constraints ◽  
Bank Branching

scholarly journals Fertility, Agricultural Labor Supply, and Production: Instrumental Variable Evidence from Uganda

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Van Campenhout
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Sweet Potatoes ◽  
Land Preparation ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Human Fertility ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Lower Fertility

Human fertility can affect agricultural production through its effect on supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies, sons are generally preferred to daughters, we isolate exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and relate it to the agricultural labor supply and production in Uganda, which has a dominant agricultural sector and high fertility. We find that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with lower fertility devote significantly more time to land preparation and weeding; larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We find no significant effect on agricultural productivity in terms of yield per land area.

scholarly journals Market Time Supply of Non-Household-Head Hired Farm Worker

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Ronald L. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Farm Worker ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Labor Literature

Traditional models in the agricultural labor literature have examined agricultural labor supply in terms of a labor-leisure trade-off by a single individual. This work examines the question of total annual market days in farm and nonfarm work of secondary family workers engaged in hired farm work. The underlying model is one of home production-consumption. A trade-off of market days between wife and older children in a family is hypothesized. Empirical results are mixed, generally supporting a trade-off in the supply of market days in a family between nonstudents and wives, but not between students and wives.

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