Job Creation and Job Destruction in EU Agriculture

LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance Discussion Paper 315/2012

27 Pages Posted: 15 Jun 2013

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Liesbeth Dries

KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)

Pavel Ciaian

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

d'Artis Kancs

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Faculty of Economics and Business - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance

Date Written: 2012

Abstract

This is the first paper to study job creation and destruction in EU agriculture. We disaggregate gross employment patterns and net job flows into detailed intra-sectoral labour adjustment dynamics based on a unique EU-wide farm level panel dataset for 1990-2005. We find that: (1) job creation and destruction rates in EU agriculture are comparable to other sectors; (2) there is some evidence of ongoing substitution of family labour for hired labour (3) there are important differences in job creation and destruction rates between different Member States; (4) these differences can be attributed to structural differences across countries, sectors and farm types; (5) time variation of job reallocation fluctuates countercyclically; (6) idiosyncratic effects are the main driver of time variance in job reallocation.

Keywords: Job creation, job destruction, FADN, EU, labour adjustment in agriculture

Suggested Citation

Dries, Liesbeth and Ciaian, Pavel and Kancs, d'Artis, Job Creation and Job Destruction in EU Agriculture (2012). LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance Discussion Paper 315/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2278943 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2278943

Liesbeth Dries (Contact Author)

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Pavel Ciaian

European Union - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) ( email )

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D'Artis Kancs

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Faculty of Economics and Business - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance ( email )

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