In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

By disaggregating the Midi-Pyrenees region into 18 different local labour markets, we have highlighted wage differentials which can be completely explained neither by structural effects related to the sectoral distribution of the firms nor by the individual characteristics of the local manpower....