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外文题目:Farm e Variability And The Supply Of Off-Farm Labor
出处: Zhongguo shehui kexue, 1999 , no. 2
作者: Ashok K. Mishra And Barry k.
If farmers are risk averse, greater farm e variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses who receive significant e support through government farm programs are less likely to work off the farm. This may suggest that policy changes reducing farm e support payments may increase off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses.
Key words: e variability, off-farm labor supply, risk.
The total number of farms in the United States decreased by % between 1950 and 1993. Over the same period, the total number of farm operators decreased by % (. Department merce). The primary reasons for these changes are that the supply of agricultural prod-ucts grew faster (due to technical change) than de-mand and relative wage rates rose in nonfarm sec-tors. These changes were paralleled by signifi-cantly greater work off the farm by . farmers. In 1992, over 83% of . farmers worked off the farm more than 100 days per year, up from 62% in