Recent welfare reforms, designed to move adult welfare recipients into employment, promise to add 10 to 15 percent to labor forces in rural and agricultural areas of California with average annual unemployment rates of 12 to 20 percent. This paper develops and estimates a simultaneous-equation model to test the hypothesis that high unemployment and seasonality endemic to rural and agricultural ...

Using three-wave survey data for four villages of Jiangsu Province in China, the present paper examines whether and to what extent off-farm employment affects the technical efficiency of agricultural production. The level of technical efficiency is measured using a stochastic frontier production function approach. Based on estimation results from instrumental variable panel quantile regressions...

Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership and use, which are both cause and consequence of the economic transformations that the region is now experiencing. The rapid rise of emergent investor farms in the 5 to 100 hectare category represents a revolutionary change in Africa’s farm structure since 2000. The rise of investor farmers is affecting the region in divers...

The Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station provides equal opportunities in programs and employment.

Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers’ Welfare The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models...

This paper outlines sectoral economic changes that have occurred in China and Vietnam following their market reforms and rapid economic growth. Bothe economies have experienced increased urbanization and a decline in the relative contribution of agriculture to GDP and to employment. There has been considerable movement of labor from agricultural to nonagricultural employment. Such movements are...

This paper reviews recent development of China’s agricultural domestic support policy, especially the transition from taxing farmers and agriculture to providing direct subsidies to grain production and purchased inputs. A model-based quantitative analysis on the effects of these policy changes has been conducted. Simulation results suggest that recent policy changes have likely achieved the de...

The rapid development of agricultural economy exacerbates the competition that the agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises compete for high-skilled talents. The contradiction of the agricultural talent supply and demand is increasingly outstanding. The cultivation model of school-enterprise cooperation high-skilled talents can solve this problem effectively. The article can highlight adva...