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This paper aims to verify the income differential between pluriactive, agricultural and non-agricultural families in rural Brazil. For this purpose, the microdata the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) of 2014 were used, through non parametric method of Ñopo (2008) was used. The results showed that pluriactive households earn approximately 64% the more than agricultural households and around 6% the less than non-agricultural households. Econometric estimates reinforced income disparities favorable of pluriactive households (0.1169 Lnw) in relation to agricultural households, and negative income differentials (-0.0647 Lnw) for pluriactivity, compared to non agricultural activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The productive and reproductive dynamics in rural areas have been diversifying as economic agents need to adapt to new social and demographic changes. Off-farm work plays a major role as an adaption strategy for the producers and residents in this context. Different motivations and contexts where work diversification is an option make new empirical and theoretical approaches arise to explain such phenomenon. In this sense, this work seeks to analyze in an applied and comparative perspective the main concepts found in literature, such as empirical evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]