UNLABELLED While studies have looked at the relationship of adolescent employment with health outcomes and risk behaviors, few have focused on children of hired farm workers. These children face unique challenges affecting their health and work environment. Exploring the frequency and nature of agricultural work characteristics among adolescent children of Hispanic hired farm workers is importa...

in recent years, multifunctional agriculture as a new paradigm of agriculture and rural development was introduced to the world. multifunctional indicates that the inclusion of agricultural production functions (food, fiber) and unproductive functions (field of employment and income, strengthening social capital, conservation of biodiversity and genetic enhancement of rural industries, represen...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effect of asthma on employment. The relation between employment history at the age of 23 years and a history of asthma or wheeze was investigated in a controlled prospective study using data collected in the National Child Development Study, a longitudinal survey of all children born in the United Kingdom in one week in March 1958. METHODS Information abou...

This study attempts to analyse empirically how economic performance and climate change affect employment in the agriculture sector. The includes seven South Asian countries’ data, excluding Maldives, from 1992 2021 by applying most widely used Panel ARDL that involved pooled mean group (PMG) estimation. In short-run, effect of past year temperature is positive, whereas GDP per capita negatively...

The non-agricultural employment transfer of the rural labor force has fundamentally changed input in China recent decades. A good understanding how off-farm laborers affects agricultural land use is needed. We Driscoll and Kraay standard errors fixed effects model to investigate relationship between laborers’ efficiency based on a panel data 1961 counties China. find that distribution county-le...

abstract using tobit model, this study investigated factors affecting on crop risk frequency of farmers in the north khorasan province. data was collected through interviewing 120 farmers of north khorasan province in 2008. results showed that age, farm ownership and off farm employment affected frequency of risk negatively. non-agricultural activity, participating in a crop supervisory plan an...

From 1962 to 2013, the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) agricultural employment share declined from 82% to 31%. The transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the PRC’s aspirations to progress and eventually become a high-income economy. We hypothesize that the drivers of this decline have been the increase in income per capita, industrial value added...