Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305132 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] German Journal of Agricultural Economics (GJAE) [ISSN:] 2191-4028 [Volume:] 71 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 16-35
Publisher: 
Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
While many studies have compared the technical efficiency of part-time and full-time farms, we add to the existing literature by extending this analysis to scale efficiency. Based on a sample of crop farms in Austria between 2010 and 2017, we find that part-time farms are more scale efficient when they are evaluated with respect to their production technology and the difference in scale efficiency between part-time and full-time farms increases over time. Although we do not find any significant difference in technical efficiency, full-time farms have a higher technological change. Furthermore, an analysis of the determinants of scale efficiency confirms that factors facilitating farm growth also increase scale efficiency.
Subjects: 
part-time farming
scale efficiency
stochastic frontieranalysis
crop farms
Austria
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Document Type: 
Article

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