Economia Aplicada (Apr 2002)

Modelling rural labor: an application to São Paulo, Brazil

  • Francisco Alberto Pino,
  • Vera Lúcia Ferraz dos Santos Francisco,
  • Mário Antonio Margarido,
  • Maria Carlota Meloni Vicente

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2

Abstract

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The question of modelling rural labor is discussed and a seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) model is suggested. An application is presented analyzing three labor categories in the State of São Paulo, Brazil; farmer' s family workers, permanent workers and temporary workers. A significant Breusch-Pagan test indicates the need of SUR.

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