AN ECONOMIC STUDY FOR FACTORS AFFECTING ON THE LABOR MARKET IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN EGYPT | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||
| Article 7, Volume 29, Issue 8, August 2004, Pages 4597-4611 PDF (3.38 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2004.209785 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Y. M. A. Osman,; S. M. EI sisi | ||
| Agric. E.C. O. Res. Inst., A. R. C.Ministry of Agric., dokki, Cairo | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In Egypt the agricultural sector occupies an important and effective position in the domain of the available work force , as it comes in the second rank after services sector in containing employment. There is no doubt that in general, the agricultural employment is one of the basic production elements and the sources which cannot be described with scarcity under population increase compared to the rest of the production elements. The agricultural employment. especially is the most important production element in the agricultural process either in production or in marketing. For she economic and political changes which faced the Egyptian target , the problem of the study included in studying the impact of the economic and political changes on the agricultural employment and inducing the other changes which playa prominent and effective role in the demand of the agricultural employment that affect directly. the equilibrium of work force structure, So , the main target of the study is to recognize the impact of some economic changes on the agricultural employment with the aim to achieve the level of full utilization and to keep up this level. To realize the study targets, the study relied on the inductive method in the economic analysis from the quantitative and qualitative aspect so , some methods of statistic analysis could help , such as linear and index function and method of regression analysis. Also, the study could make time description to clarify the impact of some economic changes on the agricultural employment investments in the agricultural sector , unemployment rate to clarify the range of the reaction of model chanqes which contains inner and outer changes . The data of the study have been obtained from The central Authority for General Mobilization and Statistics , the publications of the National Bank , Ministry of planning and ministry of Agriculture, The results indicators clarify that there is a moral impact of the value of the agricultural production on the evaluation of the agricultural sector workers, the investments in this sector, the share of the agricultural worker from the crop area, an increase in the capacity of the agricultural production and there is no veiled unemployment in the agricultural sector The results of the time model showed moral positive impact on the investments in this sector and there is an increase in Technology level leads to decrease the demand on the agricultural employment. Finally the study concluded some recommendations of which the necessity of concentration on projects with employment Intensity, expansion in land Reclamation and farming as well as conducting more studies to recognize supply and demand on the agricultural employment to ensure recognition of the structure of employment market | ||
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