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Martin Nordin . Photo

Martin Nordin

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Martin Nordin . Photo

Earnings and Disposable Income of Farmers in Sweden, 1997-2012

Author

  • Martin Nordin
  • Sören Höjgård

Summary, in English

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of farmers' income in Sweden. The results indicate that farm households in Sweden do well from a standard-of-living perspective, but that farming is still a low-paid occupation from a return-on-skills perspective. Nevertheless, farm earnings increased faster over the study period than earnings in the general population, owing equally to higher farm earnings for operators and higher off-farm earnings for their spouse. Since few female spouses make farm earnings, evaluating farm household earnings from mainly a household perspective fails to acknowledge the individual careers of farmer and spouse.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics
  • AgriFood Economics Centre, SLU

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

153-173

Publication/Series

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Volume

41

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • disposable income
  • Farm income
  • Gini
  • inequality
  • off-farm income
  • poverty.

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2040-5790