The Effects of Metropolitan Residence on the Off-Farm Earnings of Farm Families in the United States1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2281051 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felicia B Leclere, Felicia Leclere (0000-0003-4343-5023, Economic Research Service, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 366-390 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1991.tb00439.x |
| OpenAlex | W2019758502 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Previous research on the effects of urbanization on farming and farm families has focused on the consequences of urban expansion on farming practice rather than on the well-being of farm families. Proximity to urban areas has been found to alter the way farm families utilize the nonfarm labor market. In this study, the off-farm earnings of husbands and wives in farm families are compared across metropolitan (metro) and nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas using data from the March supplement to the 1989 Current Population Survey. Censored regression models (tobit) and decomposition are used to demonstrate the effects of nonfarm labor market differences on off-farm labor force participation and earnings. The analysis reveals that farm family members, as expected, have significantly higher rates of participation and earnings in metropolitan areas. But this analysis also reveals that increases in off-farm participation are likely to have a larger effect on total off-farm earnings in nonmetropolitan areas than returns to those already working off-farm. The potential for increases in off-farm earnings will be underestimated in nonmetro areas when changes in participation in the off-farm labor market are not taken into account
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Metropolitan area · Nonfarm payrolls · Population · Residence · Sociology · Tobit model · Urbanization · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Demography · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Rural development and sustainability
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
The Uses of Tobit Analysis
Off-Farm Work Decisions of Husbands and Wives
Farm Women
Capital-Labor Relations in the U.S. Textile Industry
The Rural South in Crisis
Farming in an Urbanizing Environment
The political economy of part-time farming
Local Industrial Dominance and Earnings Attainment
Rural and Small Town America
Cohabitation and Marital Stability in the United States
Local Labor Market Characteristics and the Occupational Concentration of Different Sociodemographic Groups1
Farm Wives' Labor Force Participation and Earnings
Part-Time Farming and the Push-Pull Hypothesis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |