Der Artikel untersucht anhand einer Fallstudie über die Tiefkühlgemüse-Industrie in Mexiko die Grundzüge der ländlichen Entwicklung und das Verhältnis der Agrarkonzerne zu den bäuerlichen Produzenten. (DÜI-LADOK)

We develop a household model wherein farmers allocate labor to maximize utility from leisure, consumption, and nonpecuniary benefits from farming. The model shows that farmers with decreasing marginal utility of income respond to higher decoupled payments by decreasing off-farm labor and...

We develop and estimate a model of supply response when transactions costs create a situation where some producers buy, others sell, and others do not participate in markets. We present two rationales for why producing households may have different relationships to the market: proportional and...