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Bullock, David S. Mochebelele, Motsamai T. 2011-05-07T13:26:43Z 2011-05-07T13:26:43Z 10000-01-01 1996 The study estimates and tests for differences in technical inefficiencies for farms with and without migrant workers in Lesotho. It also considers farm size and gender implications for inefficiencies. The stochastic production frontier and logit models are estimated using maximum likelihood procedure. The results showed that all farms were technically inefficient overall, irrespective of whether they participated in migrant labor or not. This suggests opportunities for substantial improvement in productivity given the current farming technology. Based on migrancy status, farms participating in migrant mine employment were found to be significantly less inefficient than the nonmigrant farms. This implies that the benefit from migrant incomes more than offsets the loss of farm labor due to mine employment. A study that fails to account for differences in farms according to their migrancy status could result in misleading policy recommendations because inefficiencies are non-neutral to migrancy status. Moreover, the study points to the importance of improved credit procedures to allow farmers take advantage of timely land preparation and seeding. An analysis carried out for small, medium and large farms for migrant and nonmigrant sample strata showed productivity was independent of farm size. This implies that increased land holding due to permanent migration to South Africa or collectivization would not guarantee higher productivity across the board. The results showed that success of farms is invariant to gender of the farm operator. First, a dichotomous analysis led to conclusion that gender did not lead to significant differences in the choice of management practices. Secondly, based on the frontier production analysis, no significant differences were found in average technical inefficiencies between farms managed by women and men. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:26:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702612.pdf: 4333720 bytes, checksum: ba1851674c5104480ed9c2cd3fb9957f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:54:51Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:25:31-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591089110 AAI9702612 (UMI)AAI9702612 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22030 eng Copyright 1996 Mochebelele, Motsamai T. Economics, Agricultural Economics, Labor Migrant labor and farm technical efficiency: Empirical evidence from Lesotho text Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.