FARM MECHANIZATION AND THE FARM LABOR MARKET: A SOCIOECONOMIC MODEL OF INDUCED INNOVATION

Orachos Napasintuwong and Robert D. Emerson

No 35117, 2003 Annual Meeting, February 1-5, 2003, Mobile, Alabama from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: A cost function approach of induced innovation is used to measure the biases in U.S. agricultural technology between 1969-1999. The rate of technological change is explained by socioeconomic variables. The post-IRCA results show that an increasingly illegal workforce significantly induces contract labor using technology, and significantly induces capital saving technology.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2003
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Working Paper: Farm Mechanization and the Farm Labor Market: A Socioeconomic Model of Induced Innovation (2005)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35117

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