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The Joint Labour Decisions Of Farm Couples: A Censored Response Analysis Of On-Farm And Off-Farm Work

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Bjørnsen, Hild-Marte () (Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research)
Biørn, Erik () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

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Farm couples' labour market responses are partly the qualitative choice of entering the ff-farm labour market and partly the continuous choice of the number of on-farm and off-farm working hours, given entry. Such a setting is interesting when examining the increasing occurrence of multiple job-holdings among farmers in western economies. This paper presents a unified framework for handling such discrete/continuous choices, involving optimisation of farm production, household consumption, and multiple job-holdings for both husband and wife. A two-equation censoring panel data model is implemented and estimated from Norwegian panel data for 342 farms observed over a ten-year period.

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Paper provided by Oslo University, Department of Economics in its series Memorandum with number 05/2006.

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Date of creation: 15 Mar 2006
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Keywords: Labour; supply.; Agriculture.; Multiple; job-holding.; Time; allocation.; Bivariate; censoring.; Panel; data.; Heterogeneity;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C34 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models
D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets

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