Household Composition, Labor Markets, and Labor Demand: Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models

Econometrica ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Agricultural Household ◽  
Agricultural Household Models ◽  
Household Models

Agricultural household models: Extension, application and policy

1988 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Robert E. Evenson
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Household ◽  
Agricultural Household Models ◽  
Household Models

A Survey of Agricultural Household Models: Recent Findings and Policy Implications

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inderjit Singh ◽  
Lyn Squire ◽  
John Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
Agricultural Household ◽  
Agricultural Household Models ◽  
Household Models

Rethinking Labor Demand

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Orthodox Theory ◽  
Investments In Education ◽  
And Training

This chapter turns to questions of labor demand at the heart of the new human capital. It rejects Gary Becker’s claim that orthodox theory offered an entirely new way of looking at labor markets, where the main focus is on labor scarcity and a skills competition, in which individuals, firms, and nations compete on differential investments in education and training. It also rejects David Autor’s claim that the issue is not that middle-class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long-term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change. The chapter argues that the new human capital rejects the view that demand issues can be resolved through a combination of technological and educational solutions. Rather a jobs lens is required to shed new light on changes in the occupational structure, transforming the way people capitalize on their education, along with the distribution of individual life chances.

Spatial Labor Markets and the Distribution of Transaction Costs

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
G L Clark
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Job Matching ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
Job Offers ◽  
Market Transaction

Incomplete information regarding the location of job offers, their contractual conditions, and tenure prospects typifies US labor markets. Crises of spatial coordination and the allocation of labor demand and supply, amongst other issues, are argued to result from such uncertainties. Assisted-mobility and spatial job-matching programs have been promoted as solutions to problems of inadequate information. These programs, however, ignore the fact that uncertainty is part of any rule-oriented exchange process. These programs also neglect the power relations between employers and employees which structure and sustain labor-market transaction costs. The crucial issue is the distribution of transaction costs between contracting parties. These principles are applied to a recent legal case in Michigan involving interregional labor migration.

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