hired labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhireandlabour
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hire
noun
uk/haɪər/us/haɪr/
UK
an arrangement to use something by paying ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofhireandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhired labour
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Here, as elsewhere, the use ofhiredlabouris restricted because of lack of sufficient capital to cover the wage bill.
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This last statement refers to absolute use ofhiredlabour, not the relative intensity of labour use.
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Overall, rice production is based mainly on the use ofhiredlabour, with family labour contributing about 20% of the total labour requirement.
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In net returns to land, household labour was valued at its opportunity cost, as estimated by thehiredlabourprice.
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The initial variable contained four items of raw data: far m size, number of cattle, availability of tractors and ofhiredlabour.
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In the smaller karkhanas, owners, their wives and their children continued to do weaving and other tasks alongsidehiredlabour.
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However, the family labour requirement at this time was relatively high, andhiredlabourmost expensive.
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The supervision costs and incentive losses typically associated withhiredlabourare even greater in an environment where hired workers may initiate or collude in violent reprisals against employers.
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Selfemployment was and is more profitable thanhiredlabour, but requires tools, access to materials and spare parts, and some start-up capital.
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Hiredlabouris greater among those with more land.
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Moreover,hiredlabouris not much used : less than 20 per cent of rural households usehiredlabour.
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The scenario investigated here is an arbitrary percentage payment tohiredlabourin excess of labour's marginal value product.
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In the following section we assume that household andhiredlabourare prefect substitutes.
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A mixture of family andhiredlabouris used for small-holder agriculture.
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Moreover, the large landowners allhiredlabourand transported their cotton harvest to the market by tractor and truck.
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More recently, as cocoa prices and productive infrastructure have declined, there has been a striking increase in women's ownaccount farming and male patriarchs are having to resort tohiredlabour.
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The results reveal a positive but minor future role of medic pastures on good farmland in the area, particularly where access tohiredlabourfor lentil harvest is limited.
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Z includes variable inputs such as family andhiredlabour, fertilizer, seeds, and fixed inputs such as land.
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In such a system, the continuation of the family and its assets assumed prime importance whilehiredlabourdid not provide a substantial proportion of the workforce on the farm.
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