 A Test of Heterogeneity of Family and Hired Labour in Asian AgricultureAnil Deolalikar () and Wim Vijverberg Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1987, vol. 49, issue 3, 291-305 Abstract: In this paper, the authors test the hypotheses that family and hired labor are perfect subst itutes in agricultural production in developing countries, and that t here is no quality differential between an hour of family and of hire d labor. Both hypotheses, commonly maintained as assumptions in resea rch on agricultural production, are rejected on the basis of statisti cal tests using farm-level data from India and Malaysia. The two kind s of labor are observed to have an elasticity of substitution between them that is well below infinity (indeed not significantly different from zero in the Indian case), and hired labor is found to be of hig her quality than family labor. The results suggest that more attentio n needs to be paid to the treatment of labor in theoretical and econo metric modeling and in data collection. Copyright 1987 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Date: 1987 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:obuest:v:49:y:1987:i:3:p:291-305 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics is currently edited by Christopher Adam, Anindya Banerjee, Christopher Bowdler, David Hendry, Adriaan Kalwij, John Knight and Jonathan Temple More articles in Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics from Department of Economics, University of Oxford Contact information at EDIRC. |
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