D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Khanal, Aditya R.; Mishra, Ashok K. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46 (2014) 02
substitution between hired and family labor. The results provide little evidence to support the popular homogeneity assumption and …The substitution of capital for labor and new labor-saving technologies has reduced the labor required for farming, yet … many farms today depend on hired labor in some form. Common in the literature is the assumption of perfectly substitutable …