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Employment History and Off-Farm Employment of Farm Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Judith I. Stallmann  and
James H. Nelson
Judith I. Stallmann
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
James H. Nelson
Affiliation:
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia and at Kentucky Mountain Bible College
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Abstract

Employment history affects subsequent choices. Based on their original job choice, operators are divided into farmers and workers. Equations are estimated to determine their probabilities of working off-the-farm. Education increases the probability that workers work off-the-farm, whereas vocational training increases farmers' probability. The probability of working off-the-farm decreases as unearned income increases, and its impact on workers is larger than on farmers. An employed spouse increases the probability that farmers work off-the-farm, but has the opposite impact for workers. Employment density increases the probability that workers will work off-the-farm.

Keywords

off-farm employmentpart-time farmingsmall farms
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 475 - 487
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1995

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