2001 Volume 83 Issue 2 Pages 107-115
After discussing some theoretical aspects of the family labor supply in part-time forestry households using the household production approach, the effects of the number and ages of household members on the size of family labor supply are examined with the data obtained by a survey for forestry households in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture. Results show that one's work days on family forests have a peak at the age of 65 to 70, and that the number of household members has a negative effect on each member's work days on family forests. These findings imply that, in terms of labor supply, the succession of forestry management in part-time forestry households consists of two phenomena. One is the cyclical change in the size of family labor supply brought about by the changes in ages of household members, and the other is the increase of a son's labor supply after his father's death.
