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The income penalty of farming and fishing : Results from a sibling approach

Nordin, Martin LU ; Blomquist, Johan LU and Waldo, Staffan LU (2016) In European Review of Agricultural Economics 43(3). p.383-400
Abstract

This study explores an apparently paradoxical finding in farming and fishing: low economic returns, but a high rate of occupational transmission across generations of farmers and fishers. Using a sibling model containing 11,924 children of Swedish farmers and fishers in 2012, we estimate that farmers' sons who became farmers received 28 per cent lower income than same-sex siblings with a career outside farming. For farmers' daughters and fishers' sons, the income gap was about 22 per cent relative to samesex siblings. Our conclusion is that the decision to become a fisher or a farmer is largely determined by non-pecuniary factors.

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Agriculture, Farming, Fishing, Income penalty, Intergenerational
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European Review of Agricultural Economics
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43
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3
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18 pages
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Oxford University Press
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  • scopus:84979233544
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0165-1587
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10.1093/erae/jbv036
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English
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