An economic analysis of the structural composition of the labor market in the Egyptian agricultural sector

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Arab Univ. J. Agric. Sci., Ain Shams Univ.,Volume 29, Issue 2, August 2021, Page 471-490, Cairo, Egypt.
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Agricultural production is characterized by seasonality that leads to an imbalance in agri-cultural labor market. However, this is pre-sumably due to the imbalance between the sea-sonal agricultural labor demand and supply, thus, resulting seasonal unemployment. This paper aims to investigate and analyze the struc-ture of Egyptian agricultural labor market throughout the period 2000-2020 via employ-ing econometric tools. The results show that, the agricultural disguised employment does not consider permeant agricultural labor its source, but rather it is due to seasonal agricul-tural employment, due to its negative marginal productivity, in which is the main cause for disguised unemployment appearance.
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Seasonal unemployment; Dis-guised unemployment; Partial unemployment; Agricultural labor market structure; Optimal employment.
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Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AERI)

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