The effect of agricultural policy reforms on income inequality in Swiss agriculture - An analysis for valley, hill and mountain regions

Benni, Nadja El; Finger, Robert

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2012.03.005

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“…For Indonesia, a labour intensive economy, a strategy aligned with mechanical innovations and capacity‐building, more than biological innovations, would increase agricultural labour productivity, levelling their incomes with respect to higher income earners in other sectors and decreasing income inequality (Otsuka & Runge, ). According to El Benni and Finger (), these market support policies can have more direct and more efficient enhancements than agricultural growth, while decreasing income inequality, as the authors found in Switzerland.…”

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A sectoral growth‐income inequality nexus in Indonesia

Gordón

Resosudarmo

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper provides evidence of strong associational effects between economic growth in the manufacturing, agriculture, mining and services sectors and income inequality, measured by an income equality variable, using panel data for Indonesian districts and cities over the period 2000 to 2010. The results show a significantly positive impact of both manufacturing and services shares of GDP on income inequality. The share of agriculture in GDP, however, shows a significantly negative impact on income inequality. The effects are robust to the incorporation of control variables, making a case for considering sectoral differences in policy targeting for achieving inclusive growth.

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A sectoral growth‐income inequality nexus in Indonesia

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Resosudarmo

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…In fact, agricultural policy measures can affect income distribution at the farm level as well as the distribution of incomes across farms. For instance, direct payments in Switzerland have contributed to a reduction of both the variability of farm-level household incomes and household income inequality across farms El Benni and Finger, 2013). 3 Though Switzerland is not member of the European Union, we assume that an IST would be similar to specifications used in other European countries (El Benni, 2012).…”

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“…In fact, agricultural policy measures can affect income distribution at the farm level as well as the distribution of incomes across farms. For instance, direct payments in Switzerland have contributed to a reduction of both the variability of farm‐level household incomes and household income inequality across farms (El Benni et al ., ; El Benni and Finger, ).…”

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A Note on the Effects of the Income Stabilisation Tool on Income Inequality in Agriculture

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Benni²

2014

J Agricultural Economics

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Increasing concerns with income risks in agriculture have led to discussions on the introduction of an Income Stabilisation Tool (IST) in Europe. In this note, we extend existing evaluations of the IST by investigating the potential effect of the IST on inequality in farm incomes using Swiss agriculture as a case study. We find that the IST will significantly reduce income inequality, in particular by increasing lower quantiles of the income distribution. This property constitutes a value-added of the IST that is not yet considered in the current policy debate.

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“…It is in line with one of the main objectives of agricultural policy which is to maintain or even enhance the income of the farm households. (Benni and Finger 2013) Direct payments have also substantial effects on the development of agricultural production. The MacSharry and the later CAP reforms tried to decouple the payments, i.e.…”

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Impact of the Rural Development Programme Subsidies on the farms' inefficiency and efficiency

Pechrová¹

2015

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Th e aim of the paper is to assess the impact of subsidies from the Rural Development Programme of the Czech Republic for the years 2007-2013 (RDP) on the technical ineffi ciency and the effi ciency of Czech agricultural holdings. An unbalanced panel includes 454 Czech farms and 2103 observations for years [2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012][2013]. Th e Parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis is used to assess the technical ineffi ciency and effi ciency. A "true" fi xed eff ects model with RDP subsidies explaining the variance of the ineffi ciency term is estimated. Th e results are ambiguous. On one hand, the RDP subsidies contributed to the decrease of variance of the ineffi ciency term, but on the other, the eff ect is statistically signifi cant only at 90% level of signifi cance. Th erefore, we further tested the medians of ineffi ciency (effi ciency) which are lower (higher) in the subsidized farms. We concluded that there are statistically signifi cant diff erences depending on whether the farm received the RDP subsidies or not. However, we suggest a further examination of the particular projects using the effi ciency of investments indicators.

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The effect of agricultural policy reforms on income inequality in Swiss agriculture - An analysis for valley, hill and mountain regions

Cited by 45 publications

References 21 publications

A sectoral growth‐income inequality nexus in Indonesia

A sectoral growth‐income inequality nexus in Indonesia

A Note on the Effects of the Income Stabilisation Tool on Income Inequality in Agriculture

Impact of the Rural Development Programme Subsidies on the farms' inefficiency and efficiency

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