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Labor: Decisions, Contracts and Organization

In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics

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  • Roumasset, James
  • Lee, Sang-Hyop

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We assess the development economics of on-farm employment with an eye toward policy implications. What do we know and what additional research is needed? The older tradition of labor market dualism and some of the more modern research are seen to share a characteristic of misplaced exogeneity, and calls for asset redistribution and institutional regulation may need to be tempered by more fundamental explanations. Understanding labor contracts as a facilitator of specialization on the farm and in the larger economy is key. Integrating the wedge model of farm behavior with agency-cost explanations of organization will provide a powerful analytical tool. Ultimately, a general equilibrium view with endogenous institutions will deepen our understanding of why total costs of coordination increase even as turnover costs per worker decline and how public policy can facilitate that cooperation.

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  • Roumasset, James & Lee, Sang-Hyop, 2007. "Labor: Decisions, Contracts and Organization," Handbook of Agricultural Economics, in: Robert Evenson & Prabhu Pingali (ed.), Handbook of Agricultural Economics, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 52, pages 2705-2740, Elsevier.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hagchp:5-52
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    1. Goto, Jun & Sawada, Yasuyuki & Aida, Takeshi & Aoyagi, Keitaro, 2015. "Incentives and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Seemingly Inefficienct Traditional Labor Contract," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211687, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Sarthak Gaurav & Srijit Mishra, 2015. "Farm Size and Returns to Cultivation in India: Revisiting an Old Debate," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(2), pages 165-193, June.
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    4. Kurosaki, Takashi, 2011. "Wages in Kind and Economic Development: Historical and Contemporary Evidence from Asia," PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series 11, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    5. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies 269557, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    6. James Roumasset, 2010. "Wither the Economics of Agricultural Development?," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), vol. 7(1), pages 1-22, June.
    7. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 88, number 88.
    8. Guiteras, Raymond P. & Jack, B. Kelsey, 2018. "Productivity in piece-rate labor markets: Evidence from rural Malawi," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C), pages 42-61.

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    Keywords

    Farmers; Farm Production and Farm Markets;

    JEL classification:

    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture

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