When the wage rate is low, a labour-intensive production method is chosen. Since it is costly
to monitor hired labourers in agriculture, small-scale farms dependent on family labour are …

The relationship between farm size and productivity has long been a topic of debate in
development economics. Using farm‐level panel data from 2003 to 2013, we investigate the …

This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and
the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's …

There is overwhelming historical evidence from the developed world and from the newly
emerging economies of the developing world that indicates that agricultural growth has …

I would like to argue in this article that in the process of economic development in land‐poor
countries in Asia, agriculture faces three distinctly different problems: food insecurity …

This article aims to investigate major factors that led to the observed pace of mechanization
and the substitution between labor and machines in rural China. We used commodity‐wise …

We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to
2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the interactive relationship between non-
farm employment and mechanization service expenditure. Design/methodology/approach …

Rising real wages create an incentive for relatively large landholders to increase their scale
of operations allowing them to mechanize and save labor (or to allow farmers to work more …

This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation–reduction of
land fragmentation. It does this in the context of rural Vietnam, studying whether land …