This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for … than family workers. In fact, farms with a higher share of hired workers are more productive than pure family farms in … labour or the shift of family labour to more productive tasks could raise productivity. This finding calls into question a …

activity, the farms’ market position, shares, etc. A systematic approach for defining competitiveness and formulating its … the competitiveness of Bulgarian farms of different juridical types, economic sizes, product specialization, and … ecological and geographical locations. For assessing the level of competitiveness of farms, a system of 4 pillars (Economic …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and … evidence that strong competition in the domestic market propels firms to be more productive, and rising domestic competition … by competition in the domestic market. Moreover, lower competition in the foreign market increases the propensity of …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts … continuing producers. The paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of plant turnover on productivity growth and outlines …

mechanization on use of household and hired labor. Finally, agricultural mechanization significantly raises the productivity of …

A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average … farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the … non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the importance of two specification choices when comparing productivity gaps …

transformation in global trading policies in the agricultural sector. The Sudan agriculture tends to look abroad to develop sales and …

Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship …The present study investigates various issues related to farm competitiveness, using viability indicators, such as Net … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the …