demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets …

activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper … wages and income, but the effect on hired labor is ambiguous; it depends on the strength of reallocation of labor from home … a favorable rainfall shock on agricultural wages, labor supply to market work, and per capita household expenditure. The …

in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by …This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages … real wages increase. Machines and land are complementary if the scale of operation is greater than a threshold size. In …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …

correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality … significant correlations between personality traits and wages, within and across firms. The results appear to indicate that non … positive correlation between "emotional stability" and wages and a negative correlation between "grit" and wages, especially …

correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …