This paper finds strong and robust evidence of convergence of labour productivity in agriculture across all US states and 11 EU countries during 1970-1992. Moreover, off-farm migration has a positive effect on the speed of convergence, especially in the EU. Holding the off-farm migration rate...

Following enlargement of the European Union (EU) in 2004 and in the subsequent years, 13 new members, including Poland (EU-13), were covered with the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The introduced reforms contributed to improvement of the agrarian structure and a drop in the labor inputs in...

Along with the socio-economic development, agriculture has a natural tendency to increase productivity. Its effect is unfavourable for farmers agricultural overproduction. In this situation, the relatively constant food needs of individual societies are able to be met by an ever smaller number...

The main purpose of agricultural activity, which also applies to other economic activities, is to obtain economic benefits. Economic outcome of agricultural activity is a result of the production potential of the farms, organisation of agricultural production as well as various types of...

The new economic policy in Ukraine implies the use of the benefits of the free trade regime with the European Union member states. To improve the competitiveness of domestic agricultural products, it is expedient to use the experience of European Union, which has gone a long way to its...

In order to contribute to the literature on the Income Stabilisation Tool (IST), this study investigates which is the better geographical dimension of a sector-specific instrument. In particular, the study focuses on Italian farms specialised in viticulture over the period of 2011-2014,...

We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the productivity of production factors ofPolish and selected EU farms from 2004 to 2017, taking into account the CommonAgricultural Policy (CAP) payments, based on the literature. In the postaccessionperiod, there was a marked increase in the efficiency of...

Growing environmental and climate problems are forcing the search for effective solutions to economic activity, including agriculture. The popularization of relevant production practices and techniques is of great importance in this regard. The direction of European agriculture is of particular...