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 …

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 …

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 …

Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …

nominal wages for manual labor both within and outside agriculture respond elastically to increases in producer prices; that … rural India. Conventional welfare analyses that assume fixed wages and focus on households' net sales position lead to …This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …

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 …