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An additional aspect to be considered to assess potential labour flows in the sector, is the role of wages. As we show in Figure 10, wages in agriculture are low. In the Figure we report the wage distribution of workers in agriculture across the EU compared to the overall wage distribution. More than half of the wages paid in this sector belong to the bottom three deciles of the wage distribution.

Figure 10. Wage distribution in agriculture in 2018

Source: own elaboration of EU LFS microdata.

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