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The Redistributive Effects of Agricultural Policy on Scottish Farm Incomes
Author(s) -
Allanson Paul
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2006.00035.x
Subject(s) - gini coefficient , economics , agriculture , ranking (information retrieval) , distribution (mathematics) , income distribution , farm income , value (mathematics) , public economics , income support , inequality , agricultural economics , econometrics , economic inequality , microeconomics , macroeconomics , statistics , geography , production (economics) , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , mathematical analysis , archaeology
This paper focuses on the measurement of the redistributive effects of agricultural policy, proposing measures to characterise and quantify these effects that are based on the change in absolute value of the Gini coefficient. An illustrative study shows that the distribution of support in Scotland in 1999/2000 was regressive with respect to pre‐support farm incomes. Nevertheless, the provision of support would have had an equalising effect on farm incomes but for the resulting changes in the ranking of farms within the income distribution. Reranking not only makes ‘coupled’ support policies ineffective but also inefficient as redistributive instruments.