Sistema dei prezzi e distribuzione dei reddito del settore primario durante il periodo 1970-1980 [in Italia].
1983
Mattei A. | Sandri I.
The study explores how the distribution of gross product in the primary sector is affected by variations of the price system. It focuses particularly on the relation between labor costs - whose rise, according to some, have had the effect of limiting growth - and farm earnings. Estimates based on official statistics for production, intermediate consumption and employment reveal a very considerable redistribution of income in favor of hired workers and at the expense of farm operators. If compensation to hired labor is calculated per work-day, rather than per worker, for total work-days as revealed by the agricultural census of 1970 and the EEC survey of structures of 1977, the results are very perplexing because the wages per work-day are too high, especially for the Mezzogiorno. It would be useful if the apropriate institutions would re-examine the reliability of their basic statistical information on hired farm labor as well as the criteria that are used to interpret it.
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