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Migration and farm technical efficiency: evidence from Kosovo
Author(s) -
Sauer Johannes,
Gorton Matthew,
Davidova Sophia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/agec.12159
Subject(s) - frontier , propensity score matching , estimation , matching (statistics) , sample (material) , intensity (physics) , economics , econometrics , agriculture , demographic economics , statistics , mathematics , geography , chemistry , physics , management , archaeology , chromatography , quantum mechanics
This article investigates the effect of migration on farm technical efficiency drawing on a large and representative sample of agricultural households in Kosovo. A two‐stage estimation procedure is applied: a frontier technique to estimate the effect of migration on farm efficiency, followed by a propensity score based matching approach to robustly estimate the sample average effect on efficiency for different levels of migration intensity. Migration is found to have an efficiency decreasing effect, which is amplified for better educated workers. The observed negative effect of migration on efficiency is evident even at low levels of migration intensity.