TY - UNPB

T1 - Labour flows into and out of Polish agriculture: a micro-level analysis

AU - Ingham, H

AU - Ingham, M

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - Notwithstanding its admission to the EU, agricultural restructuring and sustainable rural development remain as major transition challenges confronting Poland. Achieving these joint goals will necessitate major labour flows from farming into other occupations and sectors. This paper employs a multinomial logit model on Labour Force Survey data to analyse mobility in the agricultural labour market. Its major finding is that of a largely stagnant pool of farm workers into and out of which are small flows that are insufficient to bring about the requisite change without explicit, perhaps radical policy intervention.

AB - Notwithstanding its admission to the EU, agricultural restructuring and sustainable rural development remain as major transition challenges confronting Poland. Achieving these joint goals will necessitate major labour flows from farming into other occupations and sectors. This paper employs a multinomial logit model on Labour Force Survey data to analyse mobility in the agricultural labour market. Its major finding is that of a largely stagnant pool of farm workers into and out of which are small flows that are insufficient to bring about the requisite change without explicit, perhaps radical policy intervention.

KW - agriculture

KW - restructuring

KW - labour market transitions

KW - mobility

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Economics Working Paper Series

BT - Labour flows into and out of Polish agriculture: a micro-level analysis

PB - The Department of Economics

CY - Lancaster University

ER -