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Pattern of Employment and Wage Relations in Punjab Agriculture.
This paper examines the farm level changes in crop sector employment in Punjab during the period 1981–82 to 2005–06. The relationship between various determinants of labour demand and the wage rate was also explored by using the data from “Comprehensive Scheme for studying the Cost of Cultivation of...
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MAN AND DEVELOPMENT
2012
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| 100 | |a Sidhu, R.S., Vatta, Kamal and Jasdev Singh |9 49848 | ||
| 245 | |a Pattern of Employment and Wage Relations in Punjab Agriculture. | ||
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| 520 | |a This paper examines the farm level changes in crop sector employment in Punjab during the period 1981–82 to 2005–06. The relationship between various determinants of labour demand and the wage rate was also explored by using the data from “Comprehensive Scheme for studying the Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops in Punjab”. The medium sized farms witnessed the sharpest decline in labour use. The emergence of labour peaks due to increase in the cropping intensity and area under paddy-wheat rotation contributed towards casualization of labour use and a corresponding decline in the use of family labour. There was an annual decline of 116 million man days of employment in the crop sector in Punjab during the study period. The wage rate increased comparatively faster from 1981–82 to 2005–06 as compared to the increase in prices of machinery use, facilitating the mechanization of farm operations in wheat and paddy. The study revealed that the wage rate was not being influenced by the land productivity but by inflation and output prices | ||
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