Wages in traditional agrarian societies are often observed to be above reservation wages even in the slack season when markets are in a state of excess labour supply. Models of noncooperative wage setting by landlords which explicitly take account of the costs of supervising hired labour and emphasize worker heterogeneity are developed and analyzed. Conditions are given for the existence of com...

Executive Summary This study assesses the contribution of agriculture to Wisconsin's economy. Building on the analysis of Deller (2004), we use data from 2007 in this study. By using 2007 as the year of analysis, we are able to build on the current Census of Agriculture, which provides detailed data for 2007. We also explore changes in aggregate measures of agriculture from 1990 to 2007, and mo...

Agriculture contributes substantially to output and employment in South Asian countries. Therefore, any change, like trade liberalization, that impacts on the agriculture sector has widespread ramifications in terms of employment, nutrition, livelihood and food security. Implementation of various provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture causes serious concern with regard to the performanc...

Agriculture accounts for a very high proportion of total employment in the LDCs. In extreme cases more than 90 per cent of employment is accounted for by the agricultural sector, the ratio being generally very high for the LDCs in SSA. Together with the very low value added per worker in agriculture, this strongly indicates that a high proportion of the individuals counted as being employed in ...

the main purpose of this research was to study different aspects of self-employment among the agricultural female students in university of zanjan. the statistical population of the study consisted of senior female students in agriculture faculty of zanjan university in 2014-2015 academic year (n= 135). according to cochran's formula, 63 students were selected using a stratified random sam...