TY  - CPAPER 
AB  - Kosovo, like most of rural Central and Eastern Europe, has witnessed substantial out-migration in recent years, prompting debates on the effect of migration on agricultural efficiency. This paper addresses this issue, drawing on a large (n=2217) and representative sample of agricultural households. A two-stage estimation procedure is followed: a frontier technique to estimate the effect of migration on farm efficiency, followed by a matching estimation approach to robustly estimate the sample average effect on efficiency for different levels of migration intensity. Migration has an efficiency decreasing effect which is amplified for better educated and older workers.
AU  - Sauer, Johannes
AU  - Gorton, Matthew
AU  - Davidova, Sophia
DA  - 2013
DA  - 2013
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.156098
DO  - doi
ID  - 156098
KW  - Agricultural and Food Policy
KW  - Production Economics
KW  - Productivity Analysis
KW  - Migration
KW  - Technical Efficiency
KW  - Agricultural Households
KW  - Kosovo
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156098/files/A2-Sauer-Migration_c.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156098/files/A2-Sauer-Migration_c.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156098/files/A2-Sauer-Migration_c.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156098/files/A2-Sauer-Migration_c.pdf
N2  - Kosovo, like most of rural Central and Eastern Europe, has witnessed substantial out-migration in recent years, prompting debates on the effect of migration on agricultural efficiency. This paper addresses this issue, drawing on a large (n=2217) and representative sample of agricultural households. A two-stage estimation procedure is followed: a frontier technique to estimate the effect of migration on farm efficiency, followed by a matching estimation approach to robustly estimate the sample average effect on efficiency for different levels of migration intensity. Migration has an efficiency decreasing effect which is amplified for better educated and older workers.
PY  - 2013
PY  - 2013
T1  - Migration and Agricultural Efficiency - Empirical Evidence for Kosovo
TI  - Migration and Agricultural Efficiency - Empirical Evidence for Kosovo
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/156098/files/A2-Sauer-Migration_c.pdf
Y1  - 2013
T2  - Schriftlicher Beitrag
T2  - A2
ER  -