Minimum Wages and the Farm Labor Market

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine key determinants of farm labor market development in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit, Logit, and IV-Probit model are used to provide pertinent empirical analysis. Findings – Analysis of survey data establishes three facts about the farm labor market in rural China: first, households with high farm endowment are more likely to hire farm labor; second, because of the mismatch between farm ability and land size created by egalitarian land reallocation, households with more land reallocations are more likely to participate in farm labor market to adjust such mismatch; third, land rental market and farm labor market seem to be complementary. These results are robust to alternative model specifications, subsamples, alternative dependent variables, and additional controls. Welfare analysis demonstrates that the farm labor market is conducive to agricultural output. Originality/value – The main contribution of this study is to lay out stylized facts in terms of the development of farm labor market using a unique survey data set.

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A. Econometric models of the labor market in the farm sector of the north central region of the United States, B. The demand for farm labor in the United States

10.31274/rtd-180816-2618 ◽

1973 ◽

Author(s):

Nikolaos Stephanou Martinos

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Labor Market ◽

Central Region ◽

The United States ◽

Econometric Models ◽

Farm Labor ◽

North Central Region ◽

Farm Sector ◽

North Central ◽

The North

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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3249892 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Anthony Edo ◽

Hillel Rapoport

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Minimum Wages ◽

Market Effects

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Minimum Wages, Morality, and Efficiency: A Choice Experiment

AEA Papers and Proceedings ◽

10.1257/pandp.20191088 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 109 ◽

pp. 176-181

Author(s):

Conor Lennon ◽

Jose Fernandez ◽

Stephan Gohmann ◽

Keith Teltser

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Minimum Wage ◽

Choice Experiment ◽

Public Support ◽

Employment Outcomes ◽

Minimum Wages ◽

Point Reduction ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Moral Assessment

We use a choice experiment to examine public support for minimum wages. We first elicit respondents' moral assessment of two labor market systems: one with a minimum wage and one without. Then, we present four pairs of hypothetical employment outcomes and ask respondents to “vote.” Our estimates suggest that the average respondent requires a 4.65 percentage point reduction in unemployment before they would support a system without a minimum wage. We also find that equity matters; respondents are 11.1 percentage points less likely to support a minimum wage if it disproportionately affects minorities and females.

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