EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT OF FARM OPERATORS

Judith I. Stallmann and James H. Nelson

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1995, vol. 27, issue 2, 13

Abstract: Employment history affects subsequent choices. Based on their original job choice, operators are divided into farmers and workers. Equations are estimated to determine their probabilities of working off-the-farm. Education increased the probability that workers work off-the-farm, whereas vocational training increases farmers' probability. The probability of working off-the-farm decreases as unearned income increases, and its impact on workers is larger than on farmers. An employed spouse increases the probability that farmers work off-the-farm, but has the opposite impact for workers. Employment density increases the probability that workers will work off-the-farm.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15272

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