Technology and labor contract: Two systems of rice harvesting in the Philippines

摘要: Abstract Major changes in agrarian institutions the Philippines, such as landtenure and labor-contract arrangements, are analyzed terms of theories contractual choice social interactions. The results consistent with hypothesis that introduction a certain technology (e.g., machine threshing rice) reduces transaction costs involved specific arrangements sharecropping), thereby making forms economic organization rice hacienda) viable. Land reform (and also green revolution) rice-growing areas Philippines again causes change harvesting technology. Through complex interaction this gives rise to labor contracts.