scholarly journals Off-farm labor supply and various related aspects of resource allocation by agricultural households

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lee Myungheon
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Agricultural Households

scholarly journals Too Risky to Focus on Agriculture? An Empirical Study of China’s Agricultural Households’ Off-Farm Employment Decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Chen ◽  
Jing Chen ◽  
Chien-Yu Huang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Agricultural Households ◽  
Production Risks

This paper investigates China’s agricultural households and their individual members’ off-farm labor supply decision in response to farm production risks and a number of other factors (e.g., demographic characteristics, farm characteristics, and local market features). Whether and to what extent farming risks may affect farmers’ off-farm employment in China are rarely studied. Our paper provides an empirical study to demonstrate that agricultural production risks significantly impact off-farm labor supply in rural China. The impacts of associated variables on households off-farm labor supply decisions are quantified using a sample of large–scale nationwide household finance survey in 2010. The results suggest that off-farm employment serves as a risk adaption strategy for Chinese farmers. Policy suggestions on retaining farmers to focus on agricultural production are discussed.

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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