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| Tocco, Barbara; Davidova, Sophia; Bailey, Alastair. |
| This paper criticises the neo-classical assumptions of perfect factor markets and of complete information, which constitute central elements in labour market theory. Based on a literature review and on economic reports from transition economies, as well as developing countries and more advanced economies, this deliverable focuses on the structural impediments and imperfections that often characterise rural labour markets and that may prevent an efficient allocation of labour. According to empirical studies, transactions costs and rigidities hinder the well-functioning of labour markets and constrain labour adjustments. The paper attempts to classify the various limitations of rural labour markets from both the supply and demand side, although the... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Supply and Demand Side Limitations; Rural economy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122849 |
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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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| Davidova, Sophia. |
| The 2003 reform represents a significant shift in the EU policy, particularly in its movement to decoupled support. The potential impact of the reform depends on a range of factors including the modalities of its implementation and the structure of farming sectors in different countries. The then acceding countries had the flexibility to choose to implement the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) or to opt for the simplified Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS). This paper attempts to provide a comparative overview of the level and distributional aspects of direct payments across seven New Member States (NMS) covering different sub-regions, the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, and the two most recent Member States from the Balkans – Bulgaria and Romania. Although... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Single Area Payment Scheme; New member states.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; Q1; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44866 |
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| Tocco, Barbara; Davidova, Sophia; Bailey, Alastair. |
| This paper provides a synthesis of the empirical literature on the key issues in agricultural and rural labour markets since the 1960s, drawing mainly upon studies from the United States and the European Union, but also including relevant material from developing countries. The contribution of this meta-analysis lies in its unique structure as it covers the main research questions that have been addressed in the literature and includes the most cited papers from the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Economics as well as other reports and EU-funded projects. Each research question is accompanied by a tabular summary that classifies the individual studies... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Key issues; Agricultural labour markets; Literature review; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122847 |
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| Latruffe, Laure; Davidova, Sophia; Douarin, Elodie; Gorton, Matthew. |
| The impact of the introduction of the EU Single Area Payments (SAP) on farm strategy is investigated for a sample of Lithuanian farms, utilising farm accounting and survey data. The applications of two investment models demonstrate that the credit market in Lithuania was imperfect prior to accession and that some farms were financially constrained. The introduction of the SAP has a significant, positive influence on farmers’ intentions to expand their farm area compared to a baseline scenario of the continuation of pre-accession policy. The switch in policy has a more pronounced effect on farms that were previously credit constrained. While the SAP has been presented as a policy support that is decoupled from production, its introduction will nevertheless... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Single Area Payments (SAP); Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Credit; Lithuania. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36861 |
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| Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure; Ratinger, Tomas. |
| The paper analyses the relationship between the financial structure of the different institutional units in the Czech Republic and their performance, by testing several theoretical hypotheses. It employs Data Envelopment Analysis to estimate separately corporate and individual farms' technical efficiency, and investigates the effect of indebtedness on efficiency in a second stage, accounting for potential endogeneity. No substantial differences were detected between individual and corporate farms. For both groups higher long-term indebtedness negatively affects farm performance (agency theory and adjustment hypothesis), while the latter is used for appraising loan applications (credit evaluation). Case studies to banks and farms confirmed these findings. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Corporate farms; Credit; Czech Republic; Individual farms; Technical efficiency; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24421 |
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| Salasan, Cosmin; Curtiss, Jarmila; Gomez y Paloma, Gomez; Buchenrieder, Gertrud; Fritzsch, Jana; Wegener, Stefan; Glauben, Thomas; Hockmann, Heinrich; Moller, Lioudmila; Pieniadz, Agata; Renner, Swetlana; Davidova, Sophia; Fredriksson, Lena; Petrovici, Dan Alex; Mishev, Mishev; Hubbard, Carmen; Gorton, Matthew; Wolek, Tomasz. |
| Edited volume of the contributions to the mini-symposium of the same title at the IAAE conference 2009. |
| Tipo: Book |
Palavras-chave: EU; Enlarged EU; Structural change; Farm livelihoods; Modernization; Rural development; Success stories; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53334 |
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| Latruffe, Laure; Davidova, Sophia; Desjeux, Yann. |
| The paper analyses the imperfections in output and factor markets in Kosovo that act as a barrier to farm commercialisation. On the one hand, agricultural households may not have access to output market due to an underdeveloped downstream sector. On the other, local producers might not be preferred to importers as their production level is small with a variable quality due to constraints in factor markets. Data from the Agricultural Household Survey 2005 are used. A conceptual framework is developed on the basis of a household model where non-separability results from a “wedge” between purchase and sale prices due to transaction costs. The share of the output sold in the total value of output is regressed over a set of explanatory variables. A truncated... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Subsistence farming; Agricultural households; Separability; Market imperfections; Kosovo; Q12. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36860 |
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| Tocco, Barbara; Davidova, Sophia; Bailey, Alastair. |
| This paper provides a detailed overview of the differences across EU member states’ labour markets,through the extensive use of descriptive statistics. The objective is two-fold: firstly, it identifies the commonalities and differences in rural labour markets across EU regions and their developments, with special regard to agriculture, and secondly it emphasises the constraints that may hinder the efficient functioning of labour markets. Therefore, the paper starts with a description of the main indicators in the general labour market theory, such as the structure of the population in terms of age and gender distribution, unemployment and activity rates, employment levels, quality of human capital, migration patterns, and so forth. Secondly, we focus on... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Commonalities and differences; Rural labour markets; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122850 |
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| Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure. |
| This paper employs bootstrapping to correct for bias and to construct confidence intervals for Malmquist TFP indices derived with DEA. It uses these results to investigate the productivity change in Polish agriculture during a crucial period of the country's transition to a market economy, 1996-2000, when Poland was preparing for accession to the European Union. The bias corrected estimates show regress in productivity at an annual rate of 4 percent. The confidence intervals suggest that between two-thirds and four-fifths of the sample farms (250) in different years might have experienced no change in productivity. The cluster analysis based on confidence bounds reveals three paths of productivity change. Farms which recorded an increase in productivity at... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Malmquist indices; Bootstrapping; Poland; Farms; Productivity change; Productivity Analysis; D24; Q12; C6. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24572 |
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| Latruffe, Laure; Davidova, Sophia; Blaas, Gejza. |
| The newly emergent landowners in the 1990s left their land in the corporate farms due to the low level of farm profitability and the high risk in the general economic environment. The accession to the EU and the introduction of the CAP Single Area Payment (SAP) could induce incentives to landowners to withdraw their land if they are not satisfied with the level of rent. The negotiations between the corporate farm managers and the landowners concerning the rent level have been conceptualised as a simple two-player one-shot game. Overall conclusion is that although the SAP might induce more landowners to ask for a rent increase, it is unlikely that they will massively withdraw their land from the corporate farms. However, financially constrained farms might... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Corporate farms; Land rent; Single farm payment; Slovakia; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7799 |
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