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European Review of Agricultural Economics 2008 35(4):493-518; doi:10.1093/erae/jbn032
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Demand for on-farm permanent hired labour on family holdings

Michel Blanc, Eric Cahuzac and Bernard Elyakime

INRA, Toulouse, France

Gabriel Tahar

CNRS and University of Toulouse, France

Corresponding author: Michel Blanc, INRA, UR685 Rural Economy and Sociology (ESR), F-31320 Castanet Tolosan, France. E-mail: michel.blanc{at}toulouse.inra.fr

Received May 2006; final version received September 2008

In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired labour. We show that the increase in permanent wage employment observed over that period results from two opposite trends: an important increase in the proportion of family farms using permanent wage labour and a slight decrease in the average volume of permanent hired labour per employer. The first trend was mainly due to an improvement in family labour productivity and to a sharp rise in farm size, whereas the second results from a rise in agricultural wages, and possibly also from an increase in the productivity of hired labour.

Keywords: C34, C35, J22, J43, Q12


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