Farm Labor Mobility, Migration, and Income Distribution
| Autor: | Brian B. Perkins, Dale E. Hathaway |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 50:342-353 |
| ISSN: | 1467-8276 0002-9092 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/1237547 |
| Popis: | HE heavy incidence of low incomes in agriculture has been highlighted again by the recent report by the President's National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty [9]. One of the solutions long advanced for the low-income problem among farm people is increased rates of transfer of labor from farm to nonfarm employment. This solution is still advanced as the most obvious one, even though the high exodus rates of the past apparently have not resulted in changing either the income distribution within agriculture or the relative income position of farm and nonfarm people [3, 4, 5]. Given the belief that high rates of labor mobility will tend to reduce both interarea and interpersonal income inequalities, how does one explain the lack of improvement in light of the rapid out-movement that has occurred? One explanation put forth has been that insufficient aggregate nonfarm demand for labor backs up labor in agriculture. A second explanation has been that, because of a variety of impediments, the out-movement to nonfarm employment simply has not been fast enough. Implicit in the model underlying these inferences are a number of assumptions |
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