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Martin Nordin . Photo

Martin Nordin

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Martin Nordin . Photo

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

Author

  • Martin Nordin
  • Johan Blomquist
  • Staffan Waldo

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

383-400

Publication/Series

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volume

43

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Agricultural Science, Forestry and Fisheries
  • Economics

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Farming
  • Fishing
  • Income penalty
  • Intergenerational

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0165-1587