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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Ronald L. Shane
Ronald L. Shane*
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Division of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Abstract

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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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , April 1979 , pp. 24 - 29
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This article is a joint contribution of the U.S. Department of Labor, Grant Number MPRM 21-37-7325 and the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Journal Series Number 438.

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