El recurso humano en la agricultura argentina

The human factor in Argentine agriculture

Marcos Gallacher ()

Estudios Economicos, 2021, vol. 038 (Nueva Serie), issue 77, 39-63

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to identify determinants of the reductions in the use of labor observed in Argentine agriculture. The paper focuses on the 2002-2018 period, using data from the last two publications of the Censo Nacional Agropecu-ario (the census undertaken in 2008 is incomplete). The paper summarizes trends of labor use and firm size in Argentina, and presents three possible hypothesis ac-counting for the observed changes: (a) capital-labor substitution, (b)labor-saving technical change (reduced and no-tillage), and (c)changes in the farm size and the types of capital (machines) used

Keywords: Trabajo; sector agropecuario; elasticidad de sustitución; Labor in the Argentine agricultural sector; elasticity of substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 Q1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.52292/j.estudecon.2021.2269

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