LABOUR SUPPLY AND OFF-FARM WORK BY FARMERS: THEORY AND ESTIMATION

Chris Robinson, Pat J. McMahon and John Quiggin

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1982, vol. 26, issue 01, 16

Abstract: Off-farm employment has become increasingly important as an aspect of resource adjustment and a source of income in Australian agriculture. However, it is surprising that there is a paucity of work on this topic reported in the agricultural economics literature. Therefore, we have drawn upon recent developments in labour economics in order to investigate off-farm employment in Australia. A conceptual model of the allocation of a farmer's labour between farm and off-farm work is developed and applied to cross-sectional data from the Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey. A Tobit maximum likelihood procedure is utilised to test the influences of the life cycle, level of human capital, wealth, non-wage income and farm income on the off-farm labour supply of farmers.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/23051/files/26010023.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: LABOUR SUPPLY AND OFF‐FARM WORK BY FARMERS: THEORY AND ESTIMATION (1982)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:ajaeau:23051

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.23051

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().