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 …

) stresses the role of labor deepening, including the reallocation from agriculture, while more recent analysis points to the … role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union …

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 …

investment behavior and variation due to genotype, random shocks, and measurement error, which are uncontrolled by behavior … variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both …

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 …

realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a … the main instrument, that the return to agricultural investment depends substantially on the conditions under which it is …-invest, by a factor of three, when we compare actual levels of investments to the optimal investment level that maximizes …