The income penalty of farming and fishing : Results from a sibling approach
(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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- Nordin, Martin LU ; Blomquist, Johan LU and Waldo, Staffan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Agriculture, Farming, Fishing, Income penalty, Intergenerational
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- European Review of Agricultural Economics
- volume
- 43
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- wos:000384749900002
- scopus:84979233544
- ISSN
- 0165-1587
- DOI
- 10.1093/erae/jbv036
- language
- English
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