HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, LABOR-MARKETS, AND LABOR DEMAND - TESTING FOR SEPARATION IN AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD MODELS
HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, LABOR-MARKETS, AND LABOR DEMAND - TESTING FOR SEPARATION IN AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD MODELS
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DOI：
10.2307/2951598
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发表时间：
1992-03-01
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影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
BENJAMIN, D
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作者：
BENJAMIN, D
完整的竞争市场意味着农户的消费（劳动力供给）和生产（劳动力需求）决策是分离的。本文利用以下观察结果来检验分离：在没有劳动力市场的情况下，家庭构成是农业劳动力使用的重要决定因素。当非农就业或招聘限制，或者家庭和雇佣劳动力的不同效率导致人口变量影响农业劳动力需求时，该测试就有效。我们开发了一个实证模型来检验家庭劳动力需求（农业就业）与家庭构成无关的命题。该模型是根据爪哇农村地区的家庭农场数据集进行估计的。测量误差和内生性问题可以通过工具变量技术解决。我不能拒绝农场劳动力分配决策独立于家庭结构的零假设。结果对于不同规格的劳动力需求函数来说是稳健的。
Complete and competitive markets imply a separation of the consumption (labor supply) and production (labor demand) decisions of the farm household. This paper tests for separation using the observation that in the absence of labor markets, household composition is an important determinant of farm labor use. The test has power when off-farm employment or hiring constraints, or differing efficiencies of family and hired labor lead to demographic variables affecting farm labor demand. An empirical model is developed to test the proposition that household labor demand (farm employment) is independent of family composition. The model is estimated on a household-farm data set from rural Java. Measurement error and endogeneity issues are addressed with instrumental variables techniques. I cannot reject the null hypothesis that farm labor allocation decisions are independent of household structure. The results are robust to different specifications of the labor demand function.