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Income and employment generation in the food and fiber system
Author(s) -
Schluter Gerald,
Lee Chinkook,
Edmondson William
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6297(198622)2:2<143::aid-agr2720020202>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - agribusiness , workforce , economics , product (mathematics) , net income , agricultural economics , fiber , food systems , labour economics , economic growth , agriculture , mathematics , accounting , geography , food security , chemistry , geometry , archaeology , organic chemistry
In the spirit of the classic Davis—Goldberg study of agribusiness, a procedure is presented for estimating and estimates of employment and income originating in the US Food and Fiber System. The Food and Fiber System is on net a nearly wholly domestic based subsystem of the economy accounting for employment for 18.5% of the civilian workforce and a source for 18% of total gross national product.