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标题：Estimating labor supply of farm households under nonseparability: empirical evidence from Nepal
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作者：Abdulai, Awudu ; Regmi, Punya Prasad
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2000
页码：309-320
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：This paper examines the labor supply of farm households in Nepal using a recently developed methodology that accounts for the simultaneity between production and consumption decisions of the households. Estimates of marginal products of male and female labor or shadow wages are obtained from an agricultural production function. An instrumental variable approach is then used to recover the household's structural labor supply from variations in the shadow wages and income, as well as other household characteristics. The findings reveal that both male and female total labor supply are sensitive to changes in shadow wages and income. Human capital embodied in education is found to exert a significant positive effect on output, but has no statistically significant impact on total labor supply of individuals. The results also rejects the existence of efficient labor markets in rural Nepal. © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词：Nepal;Agricultural household model;Farm couples;Nonseparability;Local labor markets;Structural estimation;Shadow wage rates