Demand for seasonal wage labour in agriculture: what does family farming hide?

Aurelie Darpeix, Céline Bignebat () and Philippe Perrier-Cornet ()

No 50956, 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: Seasonal wage labour was rarely distinguished from the permanent one in farm-household models although it has sharply increased in developed countries. Therefore, we propose to endogenize the demand for this peculiar labour type and highlight the trade-offs for the various labour combinations on farms. We use data on fruit and vegetables farms drawn from the 2000 French agricultural census. We show that seasonal wage labour is a substitute for permanent wage employment, and doesn't entirely follow the seasonality of the agricultural activity: competition on the labour and product markets play a significant role in the employment of labour types.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.50956

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