© 1984 Oxford University Press and the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics
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A model of income distribution in agriculture: Theory and evidence
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul U.S.A.
Received February 1, 1984;
Summary
Measures for relative and absolute income inequality can be decomposed into the partial contributions of the distribution of income-determining factors by employing an estimated relation between income on the one hand and paid labour, economic farm size, debt and efficiency on the other. Of these variables, economic farm size is the most important determinant of income distribution.