Effect of family labour on output of farms in selected EU Member States: a non-parametric quantile regression approach
| Autor: | Alastair Bailey, Philip Kostov, Sophia Davidova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics Family involvement business.industry Member states 05 social sciences Nonparametric statistics 01 natural sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Quantile regression 010104 statistics & probability Agriculture 0502 economics and business Economics N100 050202 agricultural economics & policy 0101 mathematics Agricultural productivity business Empirical evidence |
| Zdroj: | European Review of Agricultural Economics. 45:367-395 |
| ISSN: | 1464-3618 0165-1587 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/erae/jbx036 |
| Popis: | There is very little empirical evidence supporting the claims that family farming is a ‘superior’ form of organisation for agricultural production. This paper investigates the comparative output effects of family labour in several EU Member States. No positive output effects can be discerned when farms are characterised by a low level of technical efficiency. In the case of efficient farms, the incremental effects of family labour are characterised by a number of thresholds. The paper only finds limited support for the claimed positive output effects of family farming and these only materialise after a considerable family involvement is committed. |
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