Income mobility and income inequality in Scottish agriculture

Paul Allanson, Kalina Kasprzyk and Andrew Barnes

No 290, Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics from Economic Studies, University of Dundee

Abstract: The paper proposes the use of a range of alternative measures to provide a rounded evaluation of the distributional consequences of farm income mobility, where this multifaceted approach is designed to shed light both on the extent to which farm income inequality is a short-run phenomenon due to transitory shocks rather than a chronic or persistent problem due to structural factors, and on the nature of the dynamic processes driving changes in farm income inequality over time. An illustrative empirical study of Scottish agriculture using Farm Accounts Survey data reveals that the majority of farm income inequality was structural in nature despite a substantial degree of income risk due to the volatility of agricultural incomes. Results on the micro-dynamics of inequality change have to be interpreted with caution due to the particular rules governing the assignment of farm identifiers in the survey.

Keywords: farm incomes; income mobility; income inequality; Scotland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2015-07
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