REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN THE CONTRIBUTION OF OFF-FARM WORK TO INCOME INEQUALITY

Hisham S. El-Osta, Bernat, G. Andrew, and Mary Clare Ahearn

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1995, vol. 24, issue 01, 14

Abstract: This paper uses the concept of the Gini Coefficient and data from the 1991 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (FCRS) to measure the role of off-farm income and that of other income sources in the size distribution of farm operator households' total personal income. Disaggregated FCRS data by region and by level of participation in off-farm employment show that nonparticipating farm operator households have, as a group, higher income inequality than participating households. The results also indicate that, irrespective of the off-farm work status of the farm operator household, the distribution of income among households in the North Central region is least unequal and that in the West is most unequal.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.31465

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