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The Production Structure and Demand for Labor in Postwar Japanese Agriculture, 1952–82
Author(s) -
Kuroda Yoshimi
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1242283
Subject(s) - economics , agriculture , production (economics) , technical change , labor demand , technical progress , function (biology) , decomposition , induced innovation , technological change , labour economics , macroeconomics , geography , productivity , archaeology , evolutionary biology , biology , wage , ecology
This paper analyzes the factor relations of postwar Japanese agriculture to identify the factors which explain a significant decline in labor in the agricultural sector. A nonhomothetic and Hicks‐non‐neutral translog cost function is estimated. The results of the decomposition analysis based on the estimates show that biased technical changes and nonhomotheticity together with price‐induced factor substitutions play an important role in easing the transfer of agricultural labor to the nonagricultural sectors. The results also suggest that the biased technical change is consistent with the Hicksian‐induced innovation hypothesis.