Wage Labour in Developing Agriculture - Risk, Effort and Economic Development

List of contents

1. Motivating the Major Issues 2. Decision-Theoretic Models of Farm Behaviour Appendix: Risk Preferences and Socioeconomic Characteristics 3. The Survey Sample and its Characteristic Features 4. Revenue Risk, Employment Risk and their Location Correlation 5. Labour Absorption by Cultivator Households 6. The Hiring-Out Behaviour of Rural Households 7. Summing Up

About the author

Sunil Kanwar

Summary

Published in 1998, this books is an examination of farm decision-making, incorporating the elements of risk in both production and off-farm or casual wage labour. Farm household decision-making is studied, and issues of wage determination, pricing, commodity price stabilization and producer income and output are also explored.

Product details

• Authors: Sunil Kanwar, Kanwar Sunil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138359734
• ISBN: 978-1-138-35973-4
• No. of pages: 191
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, Agricultural science