Labour Supply Curves for EU Member and Candidate States: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis

Do CAP payments reduce farm labour migration? A panel data analysis across EU regions

“…The majority of this works analyze specific rural-urban areas, for example, Greece in Psaltopoulos et al (2006); Scotland and Greece in Balamou et al (2008); and Czech Republic and Greece in Psaltopoulos et al (2011). See, Shutes (2012) for an application to the EU27 labour markets. 6 Recently, there has been an increasing tendency to use semi-parametric methods (e.g.…”

“…Most of the authors used a cross-sectional approach (Breustedt and Glauben, 2007;Hennessy and Rehman, 2008;Van Herck, 2009), while panel data analysis concerned only single countries and/or specific policies, such as Objective 1 or agri-environmental measures (Gullstrand and Tezic, 2008;Pufahl and Weiss, 2009;Salvioni and Sciulli, 2011). Within this literature, the works of Zier (2011 and2012) represent two relevant exceptions. They used difference-in-difference and dynamic panel models, respectively, and exploit the entire portfolio of CAP payments showing from weak positive to no employment effects of CAP subsidies.…”