Farms Employing Foreign Workers in Italy: An Analysis with Census Micro Data

Abstract: Over the last decades, foreign workers have become a significant component of Italian agriculture workforce. Their presence and incidence are highly diversified with respect to farm typologies, type of contract and geographic location. A comprehensive representation of this complex phenomenon is thus the first step to understand the different problems and needs associated to the employment of foreign workforce. This study uses micro data from the 2010 Italian Agricultural Census to first describe what are the structural and geographical features of Italian farms employing foreign workers and then to group farms through a cluster analysis. Results give a detailed representation of the incidence of foreign workers employed, revealing which part of Italian agriculture relies more on foreign workers. The cluster analysis allows the definition of six groups: foreign workers are especially involved in livestock activities, both indoor and grazing and in farms specialized in permanent cro.... https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/gjae/article/view/2101

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Farms Employing Foreign Workers in Italy: An Analysis with Census Micro Data ; volume:67 ; number:3 ; year:2018 ; German journal of agricultural economics ; 67, Heft 3 (2018)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Coderoni, Silvia ; Cardillo, Concetta ; Macrì, Maria Carmela ; Perito, Maria Angela

Further information

• DOI: 10.52825/gjae.v67i3.2101
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2409251110309.771320788766
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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