Part-Time Farming and Scale Efficiency

Felicity Addo and Klaus Salhofer

German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022, vol. 71, issue 01

Abstract: While many studies have compared the technical effi-ciency of part-time and full-time farms, we add to the existing literature by extending this analysis to scale efficiency. Based on a sample of crop farms in Austria between 2010 and 2017, we find that part-time farms are more scale efficient when they are evaluated with respect to their production technology and the differ-ence in scale efficiency between part-time and full-time farms increases over time. Although we do not find any significant difference in technical efficiency, full-time farms have a higher technological change. Furthermore, an analysis of the determinants of scale efficiency confirms that factors facilitating farm growth also increase scale efficiency.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.343309

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