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Biblioteca(s): 	Embrapa Amazônia Oriental; Embrapa Trigo; Embrapa Unidades Centrais.	
Data corrente: 	18/12/1995	
Data da última atualização: 	23/05/2017	
Autoria: 	ALVES, E. R. de A.	
Afiliação: 	ELISEU ROBERTO DE ANDRADE ALVES, DE/PR.	
Título: 	An econometric study of the agricultural labor market in Brazil: a test of subsistence and commercial family farm models.	
Ano de publicação: 	1972	
Fonte/Imprenta: 	1972.	
Páginas: 	284 p.	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Notas: 	Thesis (Degree of Doctor of Philosophy) - Faculty of Pardue University, West Lafayete.	
Conteúdo: 	In the last three decennia there has been a sizable shift of labor out of Brazilian agriculture in response to the higher returns to be gained in non-farm employment. The shift has not been rapid enough to equalize the income diferences between the farm and non-farm sectors. Nonetheless, it has contributed in some respects to narrowing the gap, and in others to avoid its growing larger. On the other hand there is concern with the increase in the flow of rural people to urban areas, where many of them are unable to obtain jobs. In order to attempt an explanation of these phenomena, and to gain the basic knowledge necessary to design the economic policy for coping with the problems of adjustment of the agricultural labor force, the present study attempts to identify and estimate the basic behavioral equations describing the agricultural labor market. This market is divided into two sectors: the subsistence sector and the commercial sector. For the first sector only an employment equation is estimated. For the second, two-or three-equation models of the market are specified and estimated. The specific objectives of the study were: (1) to test a model especially designed to study the subsistence sector, and wich embodies most of the ideas recently developed in the literature of subsistence agriculture; (2) to obtain statistical estimates of the employment funcction for the subsistence sector; (3) to estimate demand and supply functions for the two components of the labor force in the commercial sector: family labor and hired labor; (4) to utilize the information gained in the statistical analysis to understand the functioning of the Brazilian agricultural labor market; and (5) to derive some policy implications. Conceptual models for the subsistence sector are based on the idea that the head of the family allocates his and the family's time between work and leisure, within the constraints given by the resources he commands and technology used. The conceptual models for the commercial sector are based on the theory of demand for a factor of production and the theory of supply of labor to an industriy. The data used to estimate the model are from a cross-sectional sample, and do not permit the disentangling of the short-run and the long-run elasticities.	
Palavras-Chave: 	Brasil; Economy; Market; Matematics models.	
Thesagro: 	Agricultura; Econometria; Economia; Mercado; Mercado de Trabalho; Modelo Matemático.	
Thesaurus Nal: 	agriculture; econometrics; labor market.	
Categoria do assunto: 	--	
URL: 	http://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/149371/1/Econometric-study-1.pdf	
Registro original: 	Embrapa Unidades Centrais (AI-SEDE)	
Exemplares: 	AI-SEDE - (2129-1) - UPC - TS - -- - 72/048 - ALV - 1972.00048 - DIS
CPATU - (30768-1) - ADD - TS - PP - 1972/010 - ALV - 1972/010 - DIS
CNPT - (29702-1) - ADD - TS - PP - TS-0122 -  - TS-0122 - DIS