Public Policy in Agriculture Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income Routledge Studies in Agricultural Economics Series

In recent years, developed countries have formulated public policies in agriculture ranging from supporting rural life and farm income to promoting sustainability of food and fibre production.

Public Policy in Agriculture: Impact on Labor Supply and Household Income addresses the lack of empirical research in this area. It explores the impact of differing approaches to public policy through a series of international case studies, from the USA and Canada to South Korea, Norway, Slovenia and Taiwan. At a time when much of the developed world has been experiencing budget deficits and policy-makers and the public in general have re-opened the debate on public expenditures in the agricultural sector, this is a timely volume.

Mishra, Viaggi and Gomez y Paloma have written an authoritative guide to agricultural public policy that will serve as a reference for academics, researchers, students, and policy-makers.

List of figures

List of tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction………………………………………………………………….

ASHOK MISHRA, DAVIDE VIAGGI, AND SERGIO GOMEZ-Y-PALOMA

2. The Relationship between Farm Families and the Structure of Agriculture

MARY CLARE AHEARN AND WALTER J. ARMBRUSTER

3. Influence of CAP on social sustainability in Greek and Bulgarian rural areas

DIMITRE NIKOLOV, BASIL MANOS, PARTHENA CHATZINIKOLAOU, THOMAS BOURNARIS, AND FEDRA KIOMOURTZI

4. The evolving patterns of rural structures under the impact of public policies in Romani……………………………………………………………………...

COSTICĂ MIHAI, MIHAI TALMACIU, AND MIOARA BORZA

5. Households Associated with Agricultural Holdings: Selected Socio-Economic Dimensions………………………………………………………………….

RAY BOLLMAN

6. The Effects of U.S. Agricultural Policies on Farm Household Income and Labor………………………………………………………………………..

DANIEL PRAGER AND CHRISTOPHER BURNS

7. Part-time Farms in Canada: Changing Concepts and Changing Policy…….

DAVID FRESHWATER AND SIMON JETTE-NANTEL

8. Farm Household Incomes in OECD Member Countries over the Last 30 Years of Public Support……………………………………………………………………..

BRUNO HENRY DE FRAHAN, JÉRÉMIE DONG, REMBERT DE BLANDER

9. Farm labour and farm income: Case Study from Norway………….…….

KLAUS MITTENZWEI, HUGO STORM AND THOMAS HECKELEI

10. Does the post-2013 reduce the disparities in the distribution of decoupled payments across Europe? A farm level assessment……………………………………

MARIA ESPINOSA, KAMEL LOUHICHI, AND SERGIO GOMEZ Y PALOMA

11. CAP post 2013: Effects of a shift from Pillar I to Pillar II - Changes on land use and market effects among types of farms………………………………………

LILLI ALINE SCHROEDER, SANDRA MARQUARDT, AND ALEXANDER GOCHT

12. Contribution of Public Policies to Farm Real Estate Values………….…….

SALEEM SHAIK

13. Land Markets in Europe: Institutions and Market Outcomes ………….…….

PAVEL CIAIAN, D'ARTIS KANCS, AND DUSAN DRABIK

14. Impact of Public Subsidy on Farmland values: The Case of South Korea……

HYUNJEONG JOO, ASHOK K. MISHRA, AND JINSOON LIM

15. The Succession Decision: The Case of Small- and Medium-Sized Midwestern Farms

RENEE D. WIATT AND MARIA I. MARSHALL

16. The Impacts of Common Agricultural Policy on Farm Succession in Slovenia

BOŠTJAN KERBLER

17. Does the Elderly Farmer Pension Program Affect the Off-farm Labor Decisions of Younger Adults in Family Farms in Taiwan?…………………………….

I-CHUN CHEN, HUNG-HAO CHANG, AND LIH-CHYUN SUN

18. Succession decisions in family farms and public policies in developed countries

ALESSANDRO CORSI

19. Concluding remarks………………………………………………….…….

DAVIDE VIAGGI, SERGIO GOMEZ-Y-PALOMA, AND ASHOK K. MISHRA

Index

Ashok K. Mishra is Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair in the Morrison School of Agribusiness at the WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.

Davide Viaggi is Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna, Italy.

Sergio Gomez y Paloma is senior researcher and scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre-Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS), European Commission, Sevilla, Spain.