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FAMILY AND EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE: RECENT CHANGES IN FRANCE
Author(s) -
Blanc Michel
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1987.tb01048.x
Subject(s) - agriculture , demographic economics , family farm , population , age structure , economics , agricultural economics , geography , labour economics , sociology , demography , archaeology
This paper examines changes which have occurred in agricultural employment in France during the last two decades. It focuses on family employment since nowadays farm families provide more than half of the labour supply of the industry, as in nearly all the developed countries. The reasons behind the variation in the annual rate of decline in agricultural employment are split into two sets of factors: alterations in the age structure of the farm population, and modifications in the tendency to enter and leave farming in each age group. In respect of the later, the varied consequences of the occurrence of the economic crisis are discussed, together with the effects of deep sociological changes, especially in the relationships between members of the farm family.