We investigate farm size inequality in France using agricultural censuses and farm structure surveys at the NUTS3 level (‘départements’) during the period 1970–2007. Using calculated Gini coefficients, we show that farm size inequality has not systematically increased in France. An...

This paper investigates French field crop farms’ use of various types of labour during the period 1990–2007. We explore the determinants of the three types of labour used on farm (family labour, hired labour and contract labour), with a particular emphasis on the impact of Common...

The study proposes a way for accommodating the traditional Armington assumption to capture the possibility for a country to import imperfect substitutes as well as perfect substitutes for domestically produced goods. When this possibility is incorporated into a modelling framework, then a Common...

[fre] Élargissement à l'Est et négociations commerciales internationales : quelle marge de manœuvre pour la PAC ? . Dans le prolongement de l'analyse de la Commission européenne préalable à la réforme de la Politique agricole commune (PAC) de l'Agenda 2000, un exercice de simulation...