Are there non-linearities between SME growth and its determinants? A quantile approach

Z Serrasqueiro, PM Nunes, J Leitão… - Industrial and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
This article uses quantile regressions to study the relationship between the growth of
Portuguese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and its determinants. To control a sample …

The validity of Gibrat's law in developed and developing countries (2008–2013): Comparison based assessment

IA Nassar, MK Almsafir, MH Al-Mahrouq - Procedia-Social and Behavioral …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect, indicated that the growth rate of a given
firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the examined period. While earlier studies …

How do agricultural policies influence farm size inequality? The example of France

L Piet, L Latruffe, C Le Mouël… - European Review of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We investigate farm size inequality in France using agricultural censuses and farm structure
surveys at the NUTS3 level ('départements') during the period 1970–2007. Using calculated …

Small farmers, standards, value chains, and structural change: panel evidence from Bulgaria

K Van Herck, J Swinnen - British Food Journal, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose In the past decade, there has been a dramatic decline in agricultural employment in
Bulgaria and several reports have pointed at supply chain modernisation and poor milk …

Income mobility and income inequality in Scottish agriculture

P Allanson, K Kasprzyk… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The paper explores the distributional consequences of farm income mobility in Scotland,
focusing on the extent to which farm income inequality is a chronic as opposed to a …

Farm size and growth in field crop and dairy farms in France, Hungary and Slovenia

Z Bakucs, S Bojnec, I Fertő, L Latruffe - Spanish Journal of Agricultural …, 2013 - hal.science
The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between size and farm growth. The
existing theories of the association between size and farm growth give mixed results by …

The growth of family farms in Hungary

LZ Bakucs, I Fertő - Agricultural Economics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The article investigates the validity of Gibrat's Law for Hungarian family farms using FADN
data collected between 2001 and 2007. Gibrat's Law states that the growth rate of firms will …

Structural changes in Israeli family farms: Long-run trends in the farm size distribution and the role of part-time farming

A Kimhi, N Tzur-Ilan - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Israeli agriculture has experienced rapid structural changes in recent decades, including the
massive exit of farmers, a resulting increase in average farm size, a higher farm …

[PDF][PDF] Does human capital play an important role in farm size growth? The case of Slovenia

Š Bojnec, I Fertő - New Medit, 2021 - real.mtak.hu
The paper investigates the drivers of farm size and farm size growth in Slovenia during the
period 2007-2017 using a farm-level Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset within a …

Do family farms really converge to a uniform size? The role of unobserved farm efficiency

Y Dolev, A Kimhi - Australian Journal of Agricultural and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We analyse the growth of family farms in Israeli cooperative villages during a period of
economic turmoil. We use instrumental variables to account for the endogeneity of initial …