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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...
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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies
Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020
This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Paul, Saumik - 2020
-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
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Analysis of the Practice of Leaders of Success in the Russian Medium-Sized Businesses : Agriculture vs Industrial Production
Nikolaeva, Ekaterina; Pletnev, Dmitri - 2016
The article is devoted to a generalizing analysis of successful practices of the Russian agricultural and industrial enterprises functioning - subjects of medium business. On the basis of the case analysis of 64 most successful enterprises (leaders of success) their features that allow them to...
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Agricultural productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean and other world regions : an analysis of climatic effects, convergence and catch-up
Lachaud, Michée Arnold; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; Ludena, … - 2015
This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean … induces significant reductions in productivity (2.3% to 10.7%), over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated output losses due to …
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Technical, Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Production of Selected Plant Products in the Agricultural Polish Regions
Skarżyńska, Aldona - 2017
measure of technical efficiency was the productivity of factors of production (labour, land and capital), economic efficiency … region of Małopolska and Pogórze. Land productivity showed the lowest level of variation in the regions. Economic production …
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Assessing the Productivity Consequences of Agri-Environmental Practices When Adoption Is Endogenous
Bostian, AJ - 2019
environmental impacts of agriculture provide external benefits while lowering productivity. Policy analysis of the productivity … reduce yield, frontier analysis without the endogeneity correction greatly understates productivity losses. In other words …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896613
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Productivity of Production Factors in Polish Agriculture and in The Selected European Union Countries with Regard to The Common Agricultural Policy Payments
Anna, Ściubeł - 2021
The aim of the paper is to analyze the productivity of production factors ofPolish and selected EU farms from 2004 to … productivity indicesfrom 2004 to 2017 were EUR 442.89/ha, EUR 4,774.35/AWU, and EUR 0.25/EUR 1, respectively. In 2014, land … productivity increased to EUR 1,591.3/haand labor productivity to EUR 11,800/AWU, amounting to 68.8% and 28.6%of the EU-28 average …
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Human capital and rural development policy : evidence from European FADN regions
Maietta, Ornella Wanda; De Devitiis, Biagia; … - In: Bio-based and applied economics 8 (2019) 3, pp. 239-259
This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture … Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …
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An analysis of agricultural production in Pakistan : a study based on the asymmetric role of inputs
Iqbal, Naveed; Sial, Maqbool H.; Saleem, Adeel - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 31 (2021) 2, pp. 191-208
negatively. The study also shows the effect of farm size on productivity. …
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