Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India
To understand whether and how inverse relationship between farm size and productivity changes when labor market performance improves, we use large national farm panel from India covering a quarter-century (1982, 1999, 2008) to show that the inverserelationship weakened significantly over time, despi...
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| author | Deininger, Klaus Jin, Songqing Liu, Yanyan Singh, Sudhir K. |
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| description | To understand whether and how inverse relationship between farm size and productivity changes when labor market performance improves, we use large national farm panel from India covering a quarter-century (1982, 1999, 2008) to show that the inverserelationship weakened significantly over time, despite an increase in the dispersion of farm sizes. A key reason was the substitution of capital for labor in response to nonagricultural labor demand. In addition, family labor wasmore efficient than hired labor in the 1982–1999 period, but not during the 1999–2008period.In line with labor market imperfections as a key factor, separability of labor supply and demand decisions cannot be rejected in the second period,except in villages with very low nonagricultural labor demand. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1464202025-11-06T06:16:08Z Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India Deininger, Klaus Jin, Songqing Liu, Yanyan Singh, Sudhir K. farm structure labour market labour markets productivity agricultural development farm size To understand whether and how inverse relationship between farm size and productivity changes when labor market performance improves, we use large national farm panel from India covering a quarter-century (1982, 1999, 2008) to show that the inverserelationship weakened significantly over time, despite an increase in the dispersion of farm sizes. A key reason was the substitution of capital for labor in response to nonagricultural labor demand. In addition, family labor wasmore efficient than hired labor in the 1982–1999 period, but not during the 1999–2008period.In line with labor market imperfections as a key factor, separability of labor supply and demand decisions cannot be rejected in the second period,except in villages with very low nonagricultural labor demand. 2016-06-24 2024-06-21T09:07:00Z 2024-06-21T09:07:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146420 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153532 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153400 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147616 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Liu, Yanyan; and Singh, Sudhir K. 2016. Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1538. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146420 |
| spellingShingle | farm structure labour market labour markets productivity agricultural development farm size Deininger, Klaus Jin, Songqing Liu, Yanyan Singh, Sudhir K. Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title | Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title_full | Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title_fullStr | Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title_short | Can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size-productivity relationship? Longitudinal evidence from rural India |
| title_sort | can labor market imperfections explain changes in the inverse farm size productivity relationship longitudinal evidence from rural india |
| topic | farm structure labour market labour markets productivity agricultural development farm size |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146420 |
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