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Petrick, Martin; Pomfret, Richard - 2016

Agriculture plays an important part in Kazakhstanś self-image, and continues to be a significant economic sector …, employing about a third of the workforce. In the two decades since independence, agriculture has experienced dramatic swings in …Die Landwirtschaft spielt eine bedeutende Rolle in Kasachstans Selbstverständnis und stellt mit einem Drittel der …

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Identifying factor productivity from micro-data : the case of EU agriculture

Petrick, Martin; Kloss, Mathias - 2018

We examine the plausibility of four established and innovative identification strategies for agricultural production functions using farm-level panel datasets from five EU countries. Newly suggested proxy and dynamic panel approaches provide attractive conceptual improvements over received...

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The productivity of family and hired labour in EU arable farming

Kloss, Mathias; Petrick, Martin - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for heterogeneous effects of family and hired labour for a set of five EU member states. To this end, we estimate augmented production functions using FADN data for the years 2001-2008....

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Obstacles to crop diversification and cotton harvest mechanisation : farm survey evidence from two contrasting districts in Uzbekistan

Petrick, Martin; Djanibekov, Nodir - 2016

The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on salinization and desertification. From an economic point of view, this monoculture ties producers to state procurement, has led to the recurrent mobilization of manual labour...

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Kazakhstan's cotton sector reforms since independence

Oshakbayev, Dauren; Taitukova, Regina; Petrick, Martin; … - 2018

to be the only example of private vertical coordination in Kazakhstani agriculture, which contrasted sharply with the … Beispiel rein privater vertikaler Koordination in der kasachischen Landwirtschaft angesehen, welches in starkem Gegensatz zu …

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