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Local Economic Conditions and Wage Labor Decisions of Farm and Rural Nonfarm Couples

Year: 1991

Type: article

Abstract: Effects of geographical differences in local economic conditions on wage labor demand and wage labor participation decisions of rural couples are examined for Current Population Survey households 1978–82. Wage premiums are shown to exist for localities anticipating labor demand growth, higher unemployment rates, larger share of employment in services, and higher costs of living. These effects are stronger for males than females. Effects of local economic conditions on the probability of wage work are consistent with expected market wage and reservation wage effects, and for farm households the probability of wage work increases when expected farm output prices decline or the wage increases.

Source: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

DOI: 10.2307/1242818

Authors: J. G. Tokle, Wallace E. Huffman

Institutions: Idaho State University, Iowa State University

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, No poverty, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2087358002

FWCI: 5.066

Cites: 6

Cited by: 115

Related to: 10