Inequality in the distribution of agricultural subsidies and decomposition of this inequality for Greece and Epirus in 2006 and 2016
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Γκεσούλης, Αλέξανδρος
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Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων. Σχολή Οικονομικών και Διοικητικών Επιστημών. Τμήμα Οικονομικών Επιστημών
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Γκεσούλης, Αλέξανδρος
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Σταυρακούδης, Αθανάσιος
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Agricultural subsidies have been a significant help to the economy and more specifically
to the primary sector. A large percentage of Greece’s labor force is employed in
agriculture and so the subsidies have been a major aid for agriculture and the Greek
producers. Through this research, we examine that if this aid has been distributed
equally among Greek producers by using three different measures. All inequality
measures that we employed, which are the Gini and Atkinson index and the 80:20
ratio, are leading us to the same conclusion that there is inequality in the distribution
of agricultural subsidies. This result raises the question for which are the factors
that contribute to total inequality. To do that, firstly,we estimated our models using
OLS as we employed the decomposition methodology of Fields (2003). To find the
factors that contribute to this inequality we use a regression-based decomposition
method as we mentioned which shows us that the area a producer possess and the
number of subsidies a producer has received explains an important percentage of
total inequality in Greece and in Epirus. On the other hand, the age of producer
and regional dummies, which shows the location of the producer, seems to have only
a small contribution to total inequality and in some cases, it seems that are helping
to the reduction of inequality.
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