Campus Units
Economics
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-2012
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Volume
37
Issue
2
First Page or Article ID Number
263
Last Page
279
Abstract
This study investigates worker shares of the returns to scale and returns to technology adoption on U.S. hog farms. The wage analysis controls for a matching process by which workers are linked to farms of different sizes and technology uses. Using four surveys of employees on hog farms collected in 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005, we find persistent large wage premiums are paid to workers on larger farms and on technologically advanced farms that remain large and statistically significant even after controlling for differences in observable worker attributes and in the observed sorting process of workers across farms
Copyright Owner
Western Agricultural Economics Association
Copyright Date
2012
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; and Orazem, Peter F., "Firm Size, Technical Change, and Wages in the Pork Sector, 1990-2005" (2012). Economics Publications. 295.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/295
Comments
This article is from Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 37 (2012): 263. Posted with permission.