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Thomas Hertz

Former ERS Staff

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The gap in hours worked between hired workers and self-employed and unpaid workers largely disappeared between 1948 and 2017
A higher share of farm operators of large farms—with gross income of at least $1 million—have graduated from college, but the gap is closing
Labor productivity grew regardless of the labor input measure from 1948 to 2017
The increase in labor productivity coincided with the U.S. farm sector increasing the intensities of other input per unit of labor
Total factor productivity (TFP) has led changes in agricultural output growth despite diminishing contributions from labor

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