The Distributional Impact of Direct Payments on Irish Farm Incomes
利用1992和1996年爱尔兰农场数据，通过基尼系数分解方法，分析直接支付对不同收入来源的农场收入分配效应，发现直接支付改善了收入不平等，主要惠及低收入农户。
The objective of this paper is to analyse the distributional effects of the different income components of Irish farm income with a Gini comparison method and by disaggregating the overall Gini coefficient of income inequality by income source. Using individual farm data for 1992 and 1996, the impact on farm income distribution of the MacSharry CAP reform is assessed. In addition, the change in the Gini coefficient between these years is decomposed into the changes in the within‐source distribution of each income stream and the share of each income stream. The favourable movement in the Gini coefficient is found to be due to the introduction of direct payments, which target less well‐off farmers. Market income remains the single largest influence on deciding the income ranking of a farm while contributing less to total income than before.