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 …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …

productivity, financial constraints and labor market constraints might constitute barriers to entry into foreign markets. We … size and productivity on firms' international activities. Second, small firms suffer more frequently from financial …

This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the … productivity gap. The importance of large and small firms to changes in productivity is also examined. A positive relationship …