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What motivates farm couples to seek off-farm labour? : a logit analysis of job transitions
Biørn, Erik; Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte - 2013
In this paper some labour market consequences of transitions in the agriculture sector are examined by combining a 20-year unbalanced panel data set from Norwegian farm couples (households) and logit modeling of one-period transition probabilities. The multi-dimensionality of the problem follows...
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Accounting for heterogeneity in performance evaluation of Norwegian dairy and crop-producing farms
Alem, Habtamu - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-10
It is critical to analyze the performance of enterprises to achieve sustainable agricultural development. Several studies have been conducted to assess farm performance. However, the studies have been criticized for failing to account for farm heterogeneity (which is frequently unobserved) in...
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The impacts of climate change on agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa : a spatial panel data approach
Emediegwu, Lotanna E.; Wossink, Ada; Hall, Alastair - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 158 (2022), pp. 1-15
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Beyond the Dilemma Facing China's Agriculture - Toward a Chinese Constructive Postmodern Agriculture
Zhihe, Wang - 2013
rural life. Who should be responsible for these problems? Should China’s agriculture return to the past or should it …? Specifically, is there a third way for China to pursue agricultural development? Our thesis is that China should explore a … agriculture in China have shown that the Constructive Postmodern Agriculture is feasible as well as promising. Future agricultural …
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Common agricultural policy effects on dynamic labour use in agriculture
Petrick, Martin; Zier, Patrick - 2012 - This version: 13 March 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of direct payments and rural development measures of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on employment in agriculture. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609675
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Investment and financial constraints in European agriculture : evidence from France, Hungary and Slovenia
Fertő, Imre; Bakucs, Zoltán; Bojnec, Štefan; … - 2012
The article investigates the investment and financial constraints for French, Hungarian and Slovenian farms using FADN panel data with different econometric estimation approaches. Farm gross investment is positively associated with real sales growth and cash flow implying the absence of soft...
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Climate change and U.S. agriculture : accounting for multidimensional slope heterogeneity in panel data
Keane, Michael P.; Neal, Timothy - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1391-1429
We study potential impacts of future climate change on U.S. agricultural productivity using county‐level yield and weather data from 1950 to 2015. To account for adaptation of production to different weather conditions, it is crucial to allow for both spatial and temporal variation in the...
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Rural-Urban Migration Decisions in China : Evidence from Rural Household Panel Data
Yoo, Kyeongwon - 2017
(RCRE) panel data in China. This paper aims to find out whether the off-farm labor market, especially the migrant labor … market, could be used as a means of coping with risk and shocks to income by poor households in rural China who have only …
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Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Chinese Agriculture : The Importance of Relative Humidity and Other Climatic Variables
Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Junjie; Chen, Minpeng - 2015
county-level agricultural data from 1980 to 2010 in China, we find that omitting additional climatic variables, especially … yields of rice, wheat, and corn in China by 9.31%, 4.52%, and 45.04%, or decrease the total production by 15.25 million tons …
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Adaptation to Temperature Extremes in Chinese Agriculture, 1981 to 2010
Wang, Di; Zhang, Peng; Chen, Shuai - 2021
Temporal evolution of extreme temperature effects on agriculture is important for understanding adaptation to climate change but has not been sufficiently studied. This study examines the time-varying impacts of extreme temperatures on Chinese agriculture over 1981 to 2010. We estimate a...
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