Firm Size, Technical Change, and Wages in the Pork Sector, 1990-2005

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...

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Main Authors: Li Yu, Terrance M. Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein, Peter F. Orazem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2012-08-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/134278