The distributional impact of agricultural policy tools on Italian farm household incomes

Simone Severini and Antonella Tantari

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2015, vol. 37, issue 1, 124-135

Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of a set of direct payment tools of the Common Agricultural Policy on the distribution of household income among Italian farm families. It considers a large sample of Italian farm families and applies the Gini decomposition approach. The analysis accounts for direct payments of the Pillar 1 (decoupled, coupled and modulation payments) and of the Pillar 2 of the CAP (agro-environmental and compensatory payments). While the overall amount of direct payments reduces income concentration, the situation is very different among the tools under consideration. Furthermore, the situation differs among the three altimetry zones in which the full sample has been disaggregated.

Keywords: Farm household income; Income inequality; Common agricultural policy; Direct payments; Disaggregation of the Gini coefficient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2015.01.004

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