Labour on the family farm: A theory under uncertainty
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Labour on the Family Farm: a Theory under Uncertainty
365 Dawson, P.J., 1988. Labour on the family farm: a theory under uncertainty. Agric. Econ., 1:365-380. This paper develops a theory of the family farm in conditions of uncertainty where attention is focussed on the labour-input decisions. Specifically, the farm family is faced with two labour decisions, namely with respect to hired labour and to family labour. The framework for analysis is exp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Economics
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0169-5150
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5150(88)90040-0