Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessaryto safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometricex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the threeEast German...

In der derzeitigen Diskussion um die Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) spielt das Argument der positiven Beschäftigungswirkungen eine zentrale Rolle. Wir untersuchen seine Stichhaltigkeit mithilfe einer Ex-Post-Evaluierung der Zahlungen in 69 Landkreisen Brandenburgs, Sachsens und...

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of theEU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with adynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of theCAP. It is estimated on...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of direct payments and rural development measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on employment in agriculture. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP, which is...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of direct payments and rural development measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on employment in agriculture. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP, which is...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessary to safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometric ex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy in the three East German States...

Our aim is to investigate whether the direct payments and rural development measures of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) do make jobs in agriculture safer. We work with a dynamic labour demand equation that is augmented by the full set of policy instruments of the CAP. It is estimated...

Politicians and farm lobbyists frequently use the argument that agricultural policy is necessary to safeguard jobs in agriculture. We explore whether this is true by conducting an econometric ex-post evaluation of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the three East German...