Land Distribution, Income Generation and Inequality in India's Agricultural Sector
| Autor: | Sanjoy Chakravorty, Karthikeya Naraparaju, S. Chandrasekhar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Inequality Gini coefficient business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Variance (land use) Distribution (economics) Agricultural economics Economic inequality Negative relationship Agriculture Scale (social sciences) 0502 economics and business Economics 050207 economics business 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Review of Income and Wealth. 65 |
| ISSN: | 1475-4991 0034-6586 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/roiw.12434 |
| Popis: | This paper is a contribution to understanding income generation and inequality in India's agricultural sector. We analyze the National Sample Surveys of agriculture in 2003 and 2013 using descriptive and regression based methods, and estimate income inequality in the agricultural sector at the scale of the nation and its 17 largest states. We show that: (a) there are significant state‐level differences in the structures/patterns of income generation from agriculture, (b) there is a negative relationship between the amount of land owned by the household and share of wages in total income, (c) income inequality in India's agricultural sector is very high (Gini Coefficient of around 0.6 during the period), and (d) about half of the income inequality is explained by the household‐level variance in income from cultivation, which in turn is primarily dependent on variance in landownership. |
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