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

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.

Keywords

Farm income; off-farm income; disposable income; inequality; Gini; poverty

Published in

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
2019, Volume: 41, number: 1, pages: 153-173
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC

SLU Authors

• Höjgård, Sören

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG5 Gender equality


UKÄ Subject classification

Business Administration


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppy005

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/100771