RT Journal Article
T1 Geographical specialisation in Spanish agriculture before and after integration in the European Union
A1 Mora, Ricardo
A1 San Juan, Carlos
AB This paper analyzes the evolution of agricultural product specialisation at the farm and county levels in Spain from 1979 to 1997. This period covers all the stages of the gradual implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy and the integration of the Spanish agriculture into the European Market. A multiple product version of Theil and Finizza’s indices of segregation is used to decompose farm product specialisation into county specialisation with respect to the national level and farm specialisation within counties. Using a probit specification, we test whether changes in specialisation are driven by comparative advantage at regional level or have been policy induced. Our results confirm the existence of increasing county specialisation and highlight the fact that counties which were initially more specialised in export-oriented products have shown the largest increase in specialisation.
PB Elsevier
SN 0166-0462
YR 2004
FD 2004
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/5462
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/5462
LA eng
NO We acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, ProjectNumber 680. We acknowledge financial support from DGI, Grant BEC 2000-0170 andSEC 1999-135E
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