Labour Allocation Decision of Rice Farming Households in Bangladesh

IF 0.9 Q3 ECONOMICS
Jahangir Hossain, Md. Ismail Hossain, S.M. Asif Ehsan
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This paper investigates the factors affecting the labour allocation decisions of rice-producing households in Bangladesh. A farm-household model has been used to explore the household decision-making mechanism. We use a primary questionnaire survey, and a Generalised Ordered Logit model is used to identify the factors affecting the sample households' likelihood of choosing different labour regimes, assuming hiring-in is the top ordered alternative, followed by self-cultivator and smallholders. Results show that one more year of schooling of the household head increases the likelihood of choosing the hiring-in category against the lower-ordered choices by 25 per cent. Having more cultivated land substantially improves the propensity of a household to hire labour versus selling labour or self-cultivation (odds ratio 11.68). If a household lives a kilometre further from the Upazila headquarter, it is 11 per cent more likely to hire labour than being either a smallholder or self-cultivator, which might be a result of the larger availability of labour in those areas. Additionally, an increase in the number of visits by agricultural extension officers reduces the household's likelihood of hiring labour by almost 21 per cent while making the households more likely to be self-cultivators.

孟加拉国水稻种植户的劳动力分配决策
本文研究了影响孟加拉国水稻生产家庭劳动力分配决策的因素。本文采用农户模型来探讨家庭决策机制。我们使用初级问卷调查,并使用广义有序 Logit 模型来确定影响样本家庭选择不同劳动制度可能性的因素,假设雇佣是最优先的有序选择,其次是自耕农和小农户。结果表明,户主多接受一年学校教育,选择雇工类别的可能性就会比选择较低排序的可能性增加 25%。拥有更多耕地会大大提高家庭雇佣劳动力的倾向,而不是出卖劳动力或自耕自种(几率比 11.68)。如果一个家庭的居住地距离乡政府所在地一公里远,那么该家庭雇佣劳动力的可能性要比小农或自耕农高 11%,这可能是由于这些地区的劳动力供应量更大。此外,农业推广人员来访次数的增加使家庭雇用劳动力的可能性降低了近 21%,同时使家庭更有可能成为自耕农。
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Economic Papers
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期刊介绍: Economic Papers is one of two journals published by the Economics Society of Australia. The journal features a balance of high quality research in applied economics and economic policy analysis which distinguishes it from other Australian journals. The intended audience is the broad range of economists working in business, government and academic communities within Australia and internationally who are interested in economic issues related to Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Contributions are sought from economists working in these areas and should be written to be accessible to a wide section of our readership. All contributions are refereed.
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