protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four … scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …

In this paper we examine the role of the interaction between labour productivity and the use of factors in explaining …-neutral effects of factors assist big time in explaining the recent decline in wheat production. A higher level of labour productivity …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

labour productivity growth is increasing in Transport, Agriculture and Manufacturing, while it is decreasing in Services. … technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …

narrative are examined and its central contentions - that features including low productivity and limited employment generation …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …

affected the productivity and welfare of wheat farmers in China for a dataset that covers all the major rural reforms … which led to a faster growth of the incentive component of productivity. Due to random weather shocks this response did not …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

problems, the productivity of a company can be increased. The relation between internal communication and productivity has been … of communication on productivity. Since different communication dimensions have a different impact on an employee …'s perceived productivity, effective and efficient internal communication has to be managed, therefore, in accordance with the …