Employment History and Off-Farm Employment of Farm Operators
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Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China☆
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1074-0708,2056-7405
DOI: 10.1017/s1074070800028510