TRANSITION AND AGRICULTURAL LABOUR

Johan Swinnen, Liesbeth Dries and Karen Macours

No 20602, 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The paper provides an explanation for the wide variation in agricultural labour adjustments during transition. In particular, we analyse how various factors including initial conditions, price liberalisation, subsidy cuts, and institutional reforms affecting ownership of assets and the governance and organisation of agricultural production have affected labour use in agriculture. We conclude that all these factors have affected agricultural employment, and that especially the institutional reforms are key to understanding the remarkable differences in agricultural labour adjustments among transition countries.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20602

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