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Exploring within- and between-effects of the factors influencing off-farm work decisions in Switzerland.

Agricultural Economics = Zemědělská ekonomika, 69, (10), 2023, 416-425.

Résumé:

We examine the determinants of off-farm work in Swiss agriculture between 2003 and 2013. By differentiating between the between-farm effects and the within-farm effects, our model provides new insights into the labour allocation process as compared with standard cross-sectional or panel data models. As regards the between-farm variations, our results show that younger farm families without children and farm households with higher non-agricultural education levels of both the farmer and the partner are more involved in working activities outside the farm. However, the within-farm time effects provided a more differentiated picture: impacts of changes in most variables over time tended to be smaller, and in case of two variables show opposite directions. In addition to a negative between-effect of farm income on the allocation of off-farm labour, our results on within-farm effects suggest that an increase in farm income per annual family work unit could be compatible with a higher share of off-farm work during the analysed period.

ISSN Print 0139-570X
ISSN en ligne: 1805-9295
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.17221/233/2023-AGRICECON
ID publication (Code web): 54391 Envoyer par e-mail