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Seasonal variation in agricultural activity and estimating the marginal product of labour
Nath, S.K. - 1973
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Why is measured productivity so low in agriculture?
Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - 2015
In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US. …
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Why is measured productivity so low in agriculture?
Herrendorf, Berthold; Schoellman, Todd - In: Review of economic dynamics 18 (2015) 4, pp. 1003-1022
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Land fragmentation and off-farm labor supply in China
Jia, Lili - 2012
This thesis focuses on testing whether land fragmentation in China has an impact on off-farm labor supply by utilizing a data set developed between 1995-2002 for the Zhejiang, Hubei and Yunnan Provinces of China. Adopting the institutional innovation theory and a microeconomic farm household...
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Does agriculture contribute to economic growth? : Some empirical evidence
Humphries, Hunter - In: Applied economics 30 (1998) 6, pp. 775-781
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Are ideas really getting harder to find?
Alston, Julian Mark; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
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Agricultural productivity, hired labor, wages, and poverty : evidence from Bangladesh
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 109 (2018), pp. 470-482
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Factor productivity in EU agriculture : a microeconometric perspective
Kloss, Mathias - 2017
Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a number of reasons. The first is the availability of systematically collected agricultural data after World War I, which allowed researchers to motivate and test newly developed...
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The productivity of family and hired labour in EU arable farming
Kloss, Mathias; Petrick, Martin - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for heterogeneous effects of family and hired labour for a set of five EU member states. To this end, we estimate augmented production functions using FADN data for the years 2001-2008....
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Agricultural composition and labor productivity
Blanco, Cesar; Raurich-Puigdevall, Xavier - In: Journal of development economics 158 (2022), pp. 1-17
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