Empirical Analysis of Training Programs Among Farm Women in Taiwan:The Implication of Rural Regeneration Act
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Wei-Chih
Abstract
Due to the economic growth and the changes in industrial structure, one of the most crucial challenge of the rural village economy today is the lack of labor force. Because the relatively disadvantages in farm income and the increased opportunity in higher education, young generations have migrated to urban area and work for the nonfarm works. In order to improve the long-run rural development, the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan has passed the Rural Regeneration Act in July, 2012. The policy goal of this program is to provide a better rural environment in order to attract young generation to stay on the farm. The objective of this study is to estimate the willingness of training program participation for farm women among Taiwan.
A great deal of rural development study has devoted to the labor supply of farm women. However, little attention has been paid to understanding the need of the farm women regarding the job training programs. This study contributes to the issue of farm women by focusing on the time allocation between training programs participation where time allocation can be distributed to on-farm work, off-farm work and unpaid housework. Using a national representative dataset of farm women, the Taiwan Agricultural and Husbandry Sampling data in 2003, we estimate a multivariate probit model to examine the extent to which socio-demographic characteristics, family condition, farm field condition, geographical heterogeneity and time allocation are associated with the training programs in each of the activity of farm women.
Results indicate that human capital and the number of children of the family farms have negative effects on the likelihood of participating in the training programs, and married farm women have more likely to join the training programs participation than their counterparts of the unmarried women. Farm women who live in the farms entitled of larger land would spend more time on training program. If farm women engage in on-farm work, they would invest more time in training programs; however, if farm women do housework, they would spend less time on training programs. Finally, no evidence is found regarding the effect of female labor supply on training programs between city and urban areas.
Subjects
Farm Women
Rural Regeneration
Time Allocation
Labor Force Participation
Urban/Rural Discrepancy
SDGs
Type
thesis
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