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Household Behavior with Imperfect Labor Markets

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: A household model with differential asset endowments and idiosyncratic transactions costs in accessing labor markets is developed to (1) explain membership of farm households to alternative labor regimes (sellers, employers, or self‐sufficient in labor), (2) test for recursivity between production and consumption decisions selectively by labor regime, and (3) identify the determinants of differential labor productivity across labor regimes. The model is applied to a 1994 household survey of the Mexican land reform sector.

Source: Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society

DOI: 10.1111/0019-8676.731998036

Authors: Elisabeth Sadoulet, Alain De Janvry, Catherine Benjamin

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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, Zero hunger, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1990540969