Agricultural Labor Supply

IF 4.2 2区经济学 Q1 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Annual Review of Resource Economics Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI:10.1146/annurev-resource-101620-080426

A. Hill, Izaac Ornelas, J. Taylor

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Abstract

The labor supply response to agricultural wages is critical to the viability of crop production in high-income countries, which hire a largely foreign farm work force, as well as in low-income countries, where domestic workers move off the farm as the agricultural transformation unfolds. Modeling agricultural labor supply is more challenging than modeling the supply of other agricultural inputs or of labor to other sectors of the economy owing to unique features of agricultural production and farm labor markets. Data and econometric challenges abound, and estimates of agricultural labor supply elasticities are sparse. This review explains the importance and challenges of modeling farm labor supply and describes researchers’ efforts to address these challenges. It summarizes estimates of agricultural labor supply elasticities over the last 80 years, provides insights into variation in these estimates, identifies priority areas for future research, and reviews the most influential empirical work related to this important topic. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 13 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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农业劳动力供给

在高收入国家和低收入国家，劳动力供给对农业工资的反应对于作物生产的可行性至关重要，高收入国家主要雇佣外国农业劳动力，而低收入国家则随着农业转型的展开，家政工人离开了农场。由于农业生产和农业劳动力市场的独特性，建立农业劳动力供给模型比建立其他农业投入或其他经济部门劳动力供给模型更具挑战性。数据和计量经济学方面的挑战比比皆是，而对农业劳动力供给弹性的估计却很少。这篇综述解释了农场劳动力供给建模的重要性和挑战，并描述了研究人员为解决这些挑战所做的努力。它总结了过去80年来对农业劳动力供给弹性的估计，提供了对这些估计变化的见解，确定了未来研究的优先领域，并回顾了与这一重要主题相关的最具影响力的实证工作。《资源经济学年鉴》第13卷的最终在线出版日期预计为2021年10月。修订后的估计数请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates。

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Annual Review of Resource Economics AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

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期刊介绍： The Annual Review of Resource Economics provides authoritative critical reviews evaluating the most significant research developments in resource economics, focusing on agricultural economics, environmental economics, renewable resources, and exhaustible resources.