Household Composition, Labor Markets, and Labor Demand: Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models
家庭构成、劳动力市场与劳动需求:农业家庭模型的分离性检验
This paper tests the separation of farm labor supply and labor demand decisions, using the observation that household composition is an important determinant of farm labor use with nonseparation. After assessing the conditions under which the test has power against several alternatives, an empirical model is developed to test the proposition that farm employment is independent of family composition. The model is estimated on a data set from rural Java. The null hypothesis…