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Labor market imperfections and classes of farm households : a predictive typology of Mexican Ejidatarios
[[Imperfections du marché du travail : application aux ménages agricoles mexicains]]

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  • Catherine C. Benjamin

    (ESR - Unité de recherche d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

  • Alain de Janvry

    (UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley] - UC - University of California)

  • Elisabeth Sadoulet

    (UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley] - UC - University of California)

Abstract

Le regroupement des ménages agricoles en classes est utile pour analyser les impacts, d'interventions gouvernementales, de politiques structurelles, afin de différencier les effets suivant les ménages. L'approche généralement retenue est de construire des classes suivant le comportement de travail des ménages, c'est-à-dire en distinguant les ménages acheteurs de travail des ménages vendeurs. L'affectation à chaque régime de travail est supposée dépendre de la dotation initiale du ménage en terre. Dans cet article, un modèle de comportement du ménage est proposé incluant les imperfections du marché du travail et le caractère non homogène de la main-d'oeuvre familiale, c'est-à-dire en introduisant des différences de qualification. Des coûts d'opportunité différents pour les types de travail sont ainsi pris en compte. L'analyse du modèle permet de dériver des propriétés et de montrer notamment que la main-d'oeuvre familiale qualifiée ne travaille jamais sur l'exploitation. De plus, on montre que la classification des ménages dépend de la dotation de terre par unité de travailleur non qualifié. L'application porte sur des données mexicaines. D'un point de vue empirique, les propriétés sont vérifiées pour les exploitations autosuffisantes en travail et pour les grands employeurs.

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  • Catherine C. Benjamin & Alain de Janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet, 1994. "Labor market imperfections and classes of farm households : a predictive typology of Mexican Ejidatarios [[Imperfections du marché du travail : application aux ménages agricoles mexicains]]," Post-Print hal-02851707, HAL.
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