An Economic Analysis Study of the Structural Composition of the Labor Market in the Egyptian Agricultural Sector | ||
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||
Article 1, Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2021, Pages 471-490 PDF (650.78 K) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/ajs.2021.64708.1343 | ||
Authors | ||
shady abdelmawgud* 1; dirar abdulhamid altoum alotaibi2; Hossam Abdul Aziz3 | ||
1Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural, Menofia University, Shebin Elkom, Egypt. | ||
2Department of Business Administration, College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | ||
3Researcher at the Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Economy Research Institute, Egypt. | ||
Abstract | ||
يAgricultural production is characterized by seasonality that leads to an imbalance in agri-cultural labor market. However, this is pre-sumably due to the imbalance between the sea-sonal agricultural labor demand and supply, thus, resulting seasonal unemployment. This paper aims to investigate and analyze the struc-ture of Egyptian agricultural labor market throughout the period 2000-2020 via employ-ing econometric tools. The results show that, the agricultural disguised employment does not consider permeant agricultural labor its source, but rather it is due to seasonal agricul-tural employment, due to its negative marginal productivity, in which is the main cause for disguised unemployment appearance. | ||
Keywords | ||
Seasonal unemployment; Dis-guised unemployment; Partial unemployment; Agricultural labor market structure; Optimal employment | ||
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