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The Agricultural Productivity Gap In Europe

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  • Wenbiao Cai
  • Manish Pandey

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type="main" xml:id="ecin12214-abs-0001"> For 15 European countries over the 1970–2004 period we find large and persistent agricultural productivity gaps, the ratio of value added per hour in nonagriculture to that in agriculture. Comparing the gap in value added per hour to the wage gap between the two sectors suggests that value added in the data is mismeasured. We further find that, controlling for differences in gross domestic product per capita and institutions, the mismeasurement is positively related to self-employed share of hours in agriculture. Correcting for underreporting of self-employment income using our preferred correction factor reduces the measured agricultural productivity gap by 38%. These findings suggest that underreporting can account for a significant portion of the measured agricultural productivity gap. ( JEL E01, O47, O52, Q10)

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  • Wenbiao Cai & Manish Pandey, 2015. "The Agricultural Productivity Gap In Europe," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 53(4), pages 1807-1817, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecinqu:v:53:y:2015:i:4:p:1807-1817
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    JEL classification:

    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General

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