D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Khanal, Aditya R.; Mishra, Ashok K. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46 (2014) 02
The substitution of capital for labor and new labor-saving technologies has reduced the labor required for farming, yet many farms today depend on hired labor in some form. Common in the literature is the assumption of perfectly substitutable farm labor. This has implications for the...