Farm Household Incomes in OECD Member Countries over the Last 30 Years of Public Support
(2017) Public Policy in Agriculture: Its Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income — ISBN: [9781138652125], published
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- (en) At a time when policy makers in many developed countries still continue to justify farm support on the basis of relatively low and unstable farm incomes, this chapter examines first to what extent incomes of farm households are performing on average compared with those of non-farm households in several Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries over the last 30 years. It then compares income distribution and poverty between the farm and non-farm communities. Among the three broad areas of concern with respect to agricultural policy (Hill, 1996), this chapter concentrates on the so-called parity issue (farmers are rewarded comparably with otherwise occupied individuals) and on the poverty issue (low-income prevalence is greater among farm families).1 Because of the lack of appropriate panel dataset, it leaves aside the no less important instability issue (do farmers face more severe temporal income variations). This chapter starts to briefly review the farm problem in the next section and then proceeds to the parity and poverty analysis in the following sections.
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Henry de Frahan, B., Dong, M. G., & De Blander, R. (2017). Farm Household Incomes in OECD Member Countries over the Last 30 Years of Public Support. In Mishra A.K., Viaggi D., and Gomez y Paloma S. (eds.) (ed.), Public Policy in Agriculture: Its Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income. Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/220901