Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data
Asian countries have witnessed a sharp increase in real wage as a result of rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent years. Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used fami...
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| author | Otsuka, Keijiro Liu, Yanyan Yamauchi, Futoshi |
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| description | Asian countries have witnessed a sharp increase in real wage as a result of rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent years. Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used family labor intensively on small farms. The empirical evidence supports our hypothesis that an increase in real wages, along with absorptions of labor into nonagricultural sectors, has been inducing the substitution of labor by machines in agriculture. However, this process is less successful in the countries that are constrained by their small operational land sizes, resulting in lowered land productivity. We also demonstrated that dynamic changes in yield are an important determinant of food self-sufficiency ratio. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1534002025-11-06T05:57:23Z Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data Otsuka, Keijiro Liu, Yanyan Yamauchi, Futoshi diet economic development farm size machine use agricultural productivity time use patterns Asian countries have witnessed a sharp increase in real wage as a result of rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent years. Using a country level panel data from 1980 to 2010, this paper examines the effects of real wage increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used family labor intensively on small farms. The empirical evidence supports our hypothesis that an increase in real wages, along with absorptions of labor into nonagricultural sectors, has been inducing the substitution of labor by machines in agriculture. However, this process is less successful in the countries that are constrained by their small operational land sizes, resulting in lowered land productivity. We also demonstrated that dynamic changes in yield are an important determinant of food self-sufficiency ratio. 2013 2024-10-01T13:56:05Z 2024-10-01T13:56:05Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153400 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Otsuka, Keijiro; Liu, Yanyan and Yamauchi, Futoshi. 2013. Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1246 Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153400 |
| spellingShingle | diet economic development farm size machine use agricultural productivity time use patterns Otsuka, Keijiro Liu, Yanyan Yamauchi, Futoshi Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title | Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title_full | Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title_fullStr | Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title_short | Factor endowments, wage growth, and changing food self-sufficiency: Evidence from country-level panel data |
| title_sort | factor endowments wage growth and changing food self sufficiency evidence from country level panel data |
| topic | diet economic development farm size machine use agricultural productivity time use patterns |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153400 |
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