Earnings and Disposable Income of Farmers in Sweden, 1997–2012

Martin Nordin and Sören Höjgård

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, vol. 41, issue 1, 153-173

Abstract: This study presents a comprehensive analysis of farmers’ income in Sweden. The results indicate that farm households in Sweden do well from a standard‐of‐living perspective, but that farming is still a low‐paid occupation from a return‐on‐skills perspective. Nevertheless, farm earnings increased faster over the study period than earnings in the general population, owing equally to higher farm earnings for operators and higher off‐farm earnings for their spouse. Since few female spouses make farm earnings, evaluating farm household earnings from mainly a household perspective fails to acknowledge the individual careers of farmer and spouse.

Date: 2019
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