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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Off-Farm Work By Census-Farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns
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| Autores: |
Swidinsky, Michael
Howard, Wayne H.
Weersink, Alfons
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| Data: |
2005-08-22
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| Ano: |
1998
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| Palavras-chave: |
Labor and Human Capital
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| Resumo: |
The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive statistics on off-farm labour supply and farm/off-farm labour reallocation for Canadian farmers using cross-sectional data and cross-sectional panel data, respectively, obtained from the Canadian Census of Agriculture. This report is part of a larger study on the off-farm labour supply and labour mobility of farm operators (Swidinsky, 1997). The data indicates that a growing proportion of operators worked off-farm between 1971 and 1991. As well, operators who work off-farm have allocated greater amounts of time to the off-farm labour market. The share of census-farm operators reporting 97-228 days of off-farm work has risen from 11 percent to 15 percent, while the share working more than 228 days off-farm has increased from 13 percent to 16 percent of all operators from 1971 to 1991. There is also some mobility between the status of full-time and part-time farming, but a high proportion of both types of operators exit farming over a five-year period. Less than 15 percent of operators farming full-time change to part-time, while approximately 20 percent of operators farming full-time change to part-time. In contrast, approximately 25 percent of full-time operators exit farming, while 35 percent of part-time operators exit farming over a typical five-year period.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
17338
http://purl.umn.edu/28030
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Statistics Canada>Agriculture and Rural Working Paper Series
Working Paper 38
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| Formato: |
32
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