This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for … labour or the shift of family labour to more productive tasks could raise productivity. This finding calls into question a … main pillar of the received family farm theory. In about half the countries, there are no statistically different effects …

Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a … stressed that agricultural technologies approximate the key assumptions of production theory particularly well. To measure … agricultural productivity the analyst must deal with tangible (land, labour, and capital) as well as intangible (e.g., management …