On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support

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dc.contributor.author Stark, Oded
dc.contributor.author Fałkowski, Jan
dc.date.accessioned 2018-10-16T16:06:38Z
dc.date.available 2018-10-16T16:06:38Z
dc.date.issued 2018-10-16
dc.identifier.other 512044155 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/84418
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-844182 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-25808
dc.description.abstract A rationale for providing support to the farm sector in the course of economic development and structural change is a growing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers. Drawing on a model that enables us to analyze the level of social stress experienced by farmers as employment shifts from the farm sector to other sectors, we find that even without an increasing gap between the incomes of non-agricultural workers and the incomes of farmers, support to farmers might be needed/can be justified. This result arises because under well-specified conditions, when the size of the farm population decreases, those who remain in farming experience increasing aggregate social stress. The increase is nonlinear: it is modest when the outflow from the farm sector is relatively small or when it is large, and it becomes more significant when the outflow is moderate. This finding can inform policymakers who seek to alleviate the social stress of the farming population as to the timing and intensity of that intervention. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Universität Tübingen de_DE
dc.rights ubt-podno de_DE
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dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_ohne_pod.php?la=en en
dc.subject.classification Landwirtschaft de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 330 de_DE
dc.subject.other Structural change en
dc.subject.other Occupational migration en
dc.subject.other Aggregate social stress en
dc.subject.other Support for farmers en
dc.title On structural change, the social stress of a farming population, and the political economy of farm support en
dc.type Article de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät de_DE
utue.publikation.source University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 110 de_DE

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