Trends in family labour, hired labour and contract work on French and Swiss crop farms: The role of agricultural policies
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The objective of this article is to analyse the trends in on-farm labour use, including own
family labour, hired labour and contract work, and to assess the factors driving their evolution
in France and in Switzerland during 1990-2007. A particular attention is given to agricultural
policies, namely the level and type of support. Results indicate that crop area payments
discourage the different labour demands in both countries, while environment and investment
payments favour contract and hired labour in France. Contract labour and family labour are
substitute and hired labour and family labour are complement in France.