The objective of this work is to investigate how Common Agricultural Policys (CAP) direct payments influence the development of farm structures and therefore performance and income disparities between farms. In this study the focus is put on the comparison of impacts of changes in direct...

This thesis focuses on testing whether land fragmentation in China has an impact on off-farm labor supply by utilizing a data set developed between 1995-2002 for the Zhejiang, Hubei and Yunnan Provinces of China. Adopting the institutional innovation theory and a microeconomic farm household...

Das Ziel der Arbeit ist es, (1) die Entstehung integrierter Strukturen im russischen Agrar- und Ernährungssektor seit Transformationsbeginn zu erklären, (2) deren Funktionsweise zu analysieren, (3) ihre Entwicklungsperspektiven und (4) ihre volkswirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen abzuschätzen....

(...) Bei dieser Ausgangslage hat sich die vorliegende Arbeit folgende Ziele gestellt: (1) Herausarbeitung der wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren für eine effiziente Produktion und eine erfolgreiche Entwicklung des russischen Geflügelfleischsektors, (2) Identifizierung effizienter Geflügelfarmen....

Motivated by the regional imbalances and the long-lasting trends of low incomes, unemployment and depopulation in many of Europes rural areas, this research delves into rural non-farm entrepreneurship as a potential way out. Up to now scholars from the field of entrepreneurial research have...

The findings presented in this edited book are derived from the activities of the SCARLED (Structural Change in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods) project. It had been co-financed by the European Commission and lasted from January 2007 until September 2010. SCARLED pursued two major research...

[Introduction ...] The objective of the first subchapter is to introduce the differences in labor market outcomes among ethnic groups in China and to acquaint the reader with some of the major determinants of these differences, notably ethnic status, human capital factors and geographic...

(...) The analyses of the motives for remitting in this research are based on an empirical quantitative dataset collected in 2009/2010. This dataset contains information on 225 Kosovo-Albanian migrants living in Germany and their corresponding rural origin households in Kosovo. This study design...

In the present dissertation, an ex-post impact assessment of the CAP is conducted in the three East German Federal States of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt. The analysis is based on regional data for 69 counties observed between 1997 and 2007. The main objective of the study is twofold:...

Three general implications for chain management can be derived from my results: 1. Network-level and firm-level goals must be considered simultaneously within a collective strategy. The collective strategy should address not only the alignment of interests of individual network members but also...