@techreport{Glauben2003Agriculture,
abstract = {This paper investigates the relationship between farm exits and various farm, family, and
regional characteristics during the period of 1991 to 1999. Using county-level data for 326
regions in western Germany, econometric cross section estimations indicate that exits from
farming are strongly influenced by farm and family characteristics. In particular, exit rates are
higher in regions with smaller farms. Further, farm exits are closely related to retirement and
succession considerations. Exit rates are lower in regions with a high share of part-time farms,
which indicates that off-farm income has a stabilizing impact on structural change in
agriculture.},
author = {Thomas Glauben and Hendrik Tietje and Christoph R. Weiss},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {330; Farm exit; county-level census data; cross-section estimation; Germany; Landwirtschaft; Marktaustritt; Liquidation; Familiensoziologie; Region; Nebenerwerbslandwirtschaft; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {0308},
title = {Agriculture on the Move: Exploring Regional Differences in Farm Exit Rates},
type = {FE Workingpaper / Universit\"{a}t Kiel, Department of Food Economics and Consumption Studies},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23600},
year = {2003}
}

