Share Contracts in Malaysian Rubber Smallholdings
研究了马来西亚半岛橡胶小农中常见的分成合同，提出理论框架解释其存在，并指出橡胶作为多年生作物使收割劳动更单一，为分成制理论提供了更精确的检验。
The most common tenure arrangement between tappers and owners of rubber smallholdings' in Peninsular Malaysia is the share contract or a variant2 of the share contract. This paper postulates a theoretical framework to explain the share contract. What is perhaps unusual in this paper is the fact that rubber is a perennial tree crop. Planting, maintenance, and harvesting (tapping) are often carried out by different parties in tree crops because these activities are spread over a long period. Hence, unlike in short-term crops (e.g., rice), where the tenant does the ploughing, planting, weeding, and harvesting, here the tapper is only concerned with tapping (harvesting). Thus, rubber tapping should provide a more accurate test of sharecropping theories because the labor input in question is only for a single crop-husbandry activity and is therefore more homogeneous compared to the case for short-term crops.