Gender and agricultural productivity in a surplus labor, traditional economy: empirical evidence from Nepal.
Gender and agricultural productivity in a surplus labor, traditional economy: empirical evidence from Nepal.
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10.1353/jda.0.0069
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2010-01-01
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Shields, M. P.
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Aly, H. Y.;Shields, M. P.
在本文中，两种方法（劳动效率和分离因素的方法）和两个生产函数（射线相似函数和柯布道格拉斯函数），被用来估计女性与男性农业劳动力在尼泊尔传统的农业经济的生产率。女性劳动者将低于男性的生产力，由于在物质和人力资本的差异，源于经济和社会文化歧视的假设进行了测试。研究结果证实了这一预期。然而，该研究表明，一旦将男女农民使用的灌溉和种子类型的差异纳入模型，差异的幅度就会减小，估计系数也就变得微不足道。射线位似函数在产生现实的结果表明，拥挤是尼泊尔农业的一个重要特征，支持的概念，可能有伪装的失业，在这个意义上说，太多的劳动力用于农业和实证分析时，应考虑这种可能性函数形式。
In this paper, two approaches (labor efficiency and separate factors approach) and two production functions (a ray-homothetic function and the Cobb-Douglas function), are used to estimate the productivity of female versus male farm laborers in the traditional agricultural economy of Nepal. The hypothesis that female laborers would be less productive than males due to the disparities in physical and human capital, originating from economic and socio-cultural discrimination, is tested. The study results confirm this expectation. However, the study suggests that once differences in irrigation and type of seeds used by male and female farmers are included in the model, the magnitude of the difference is reduced and the estimated coefficient becomes insignificant. The ray-homothetic function does best in yielding realistic results suggesting that congestion is an important feature of Nepalese agriculture supporting the notion that there may be disguised unemployment in the sense that too much labor is used in agriculture and that empirical analysis should accommodate this possibility when considering functional form.