Off-farm employment and reasons for entering farming as determinants of production enterprise selection in US agriculture
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Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China☆
Article history: Received 28 February 2011 Received in revised form 13 July 2011 Accepted 8 August 2011 Available online 19 September 2011 This paper investigates the endogenous linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricult...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1364-985X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00542.x