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| Mata, Henrique Tome Da Costa; Ponciano, Niraldo Jose; Souza, Paulo Marcelo de. |
| An important indicator of the performance of any economy is the productivity and the connections between the labour market and the sectoral distribution of profit. Despite the restrictions inherent in the use of different concepts of productivity, Kaldor and Verdoorn have undertaken a serious verification of some relationship between production, employment and productivity, in an attempt to explain the dynamics of inter-regional and inter-sectoral economies, resulting in the designation of the so-called Kaldor-Verdoorn Law. The model for such a law asks questions about the relationship between the growth of labour productivity and product growth, throwing up scale indices of impact and return, in particular applicable to the industrial sector. The main... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: GDP; Productivity; Kaldor-Verdoorn Law; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55305 |
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| Cameron, Michael P.; Bell, Kendon. |
| The dairy industry is a major contributor to both the New Zealand economy as a whole and to the Waikato regional economy in particular. The industry is experiencing a period of considerable change, with increases in dairy conversion, increased intensification, and increasing use of nitrogen fertilisers, each of which has an associated environmental cost. In this paper the productivity performance of the mature dairy industry in the Waikato region is investigated, using panel data at the sub-regional level from 1994 to 2007. Overall we show that, under a range of specifications, productivity growth independent of increasing land use and herd numbers has been significantly below the four percent industry target. This suggests that, if the four percent goal... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Productivity; Dairy industry; Waikato.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97132 |
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| Wagner, Joachim. |
| While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their counterparts which sell on the domestic market only. This paper surveys the empirical strategies applied, and the results produced, in 45 microeconometric studies with data from 33 countries that were published between 1995 and 2004. Details aside, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self select into export markets, while exporting does not... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Exports; Productivity; Literature survey; Micro data; International Relations/Trade; Productivity Analysis; F14; D21. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26308 |
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| Takacs, Istvan; Baranyai, Zsolt; Takacs, Emese. |
| Efficiency of farm assets is a very important factor of competitive production. It could be in strong correlation with profitability of economic activities. One of the most important factor of the farm assets is the fixed assets, and as a part of it, the equipment as well. An important factor of the farm asset value is the machinery, which depends on the amount of internal resources of farms and external financial resources i.e. governmental subsidies, bank loans. But, as it could be observed during the 1980s and 1990s on the farms of developed countries, the technical development was also a considerable factor of farming. This paper, based on the data of the FADN, and yearbooks of the HCSO, focuses on the investigation of some figures of the European... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Gross margin; Farm number; Farm structure; Productivity; FADN; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7840 |
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| Palomares, Rafaela Dios. |
| This study investigated the efficiency and productivity change of a sample of food distribution units (MERCAs) in Spain over the 1.997-1.999 period, applying non-parametric frontier methodology in a sales efficiency framework. We specified a mean sales model composed of two blocks of variables, the production block, and the marketing management block. Then we applied output oriented DEA methodology to perform the efficiency analysis, also taking into account the overall efficiency decomposition into pure and scale efficiency. The Malmquist index was calculated in order to analyse the components of the productivity change. The mean pure sales efficiency index was high, around 0.8, the mean scale index being 0,9. As appears from the results, six food... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Efficiency; Productivity; DEA method; Malmquist index; Food Distribution Unit; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24828 |
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| Key, Nigel D.; McBride, William D.. |
| Estimating how the use of production contracts affects farm productivity is difficult when unobservable factors are correlated with both the decision to contract and productivity. To account for potential selection bias, this study uses the local availability of production contracts as an instrument for whether a farm uses a contract in order to estimate the impact of contract use on total factor productivity. Results indicate that use of a production contract is associated with a large increase in productivity for feeder-to-finish hog farms in the United States. The instrumental variable method makes it credible to assert that the observed association is a causal relationship rather than simply a correlation. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Productivity; Production contracts; Instrumental variables; Sample selection; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45659 |
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| Arieira, Jailson De Oliveira; Dias-Arieira, Claudia Regina; Fusco, Jose Paulo Alves; Gimenes, Regio Marcio Toesca; Steca, Jose Marcelo. |
| O Brasil se destaca no mercado mundial de carne bovina como um dos maiores produtores e exportadores. Nos últimos anos, a utilização de inovações tecnológicas e um intenso investimento na melhoria genética do rebanho, das condições de sanidade animal e de manejo levaram o país a atingir importantes marcas de produtividade no setor. Embora problemas recentes enfrentados pelos produtores criem apreensão, a pecuária de corte como um todo não tem o que temer, pois o país está hoje num patamar tecnológico que lhe permite uma certa tranqüilidade. Em razão disso, o presente trabalho investigou e comparou o rendimento produtivo de quatro raças de corte, na região noroeste do Paraná, identificando, na fase de terminação as principais vantagens e desvantagens de... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Produção; Pecuária de corte; Produtividade; Production; Cattle of cut; Productivity; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/102900 |
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| Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure. |
| The paper assesses the extent to which sampling variation affects findings about Malmquist productivity change derived using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), in the first stage calculating productivity indices and in the second stage investigating the farm-specific change in productivity. Confidence intervals for Malmquist indices are constructed using Simar and Wilson's (1999) bootstrapping procedure. The main contribution of the paper is to account in the second stage for the information provided by the bootstrap in the first stage. The DEA standard errors of the Malmquist indices given by bootstrapping are employed in an innovative heteroscedastic panel regression, using a maximum likelihood procedure. The application is to a sample of 250 Polish farms... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Productivity; Malmquist; Bootstrapping; Second-stage regression; Poland; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25793 |
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| Elitzak, Howard. |
| Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 2.6 percent in 1997. This increase was greater than the overall increase in the CPI (which rose 2.3 percent) for the third consecutive year. Higher charges for processing and distributing food, as measured by the farm-to-retail price spread, were primarily responsible for the 1997 increase. The prices farmers received for commodities, as measured by the farm value of USDA's market basket of foods, dropped 4.4 percent. The farm value share of the food dollar spent in grocery stores in 1997 was 23 percent, a decrease of 2 percent from 1996. The farm-to-retail price spread of USDA's market basket of foods rose 4.7 percent, partly reflecting higher prices of inputs, such as labor. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Retail food prices; Farm-to-retail price spread; Farm value share; Food marketing costs; Food spending; Profits; Productivity; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34053 |
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| Ludena, Carlos E.; Hertel, Thomas W.; Preckel, Paul V.; Foster, Kenneth A.; Nin Pratt, Alejandro. |
| There is considerable interest in projections of future productivity growth in agriculture. Whether one is interested in the outlook for global commodity markets, future patterns of international trade, or the interactions between land use, deforestation and ecological diversity, the rate of productivity growth in agriculture is an essential input. Yet solid projections for this variable have proven elusive particularly on a global basis. This is due, in no small part, to the difficulty in measuring historical productivity growth. The purpose of this paper is to report the latest time series evidence on total factor productivity growth for crops, ruminants and non-ruminant livestock, on a global basis. We then follow with tests for convergence amongst... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Malmquist index; Productivity; Convergence; Projections; Crops; Livestock; Productivity Analysis; D24; O13; O47; Q10. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25392 |
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