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Labour Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture of the European Union

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  • Zbigniew Golas

    (Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland.)

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The main objective of the presented paper is to examine and assess the changes in labour productivity in the EU agriculture in the context of the diversity of its level and dynamics of change underlying the identification of labour productivity convergence/divergence processes taking place in agriculture. The labour productivity convergence processes in the EU agriculture were analysed based on data from the period between 2005 and 2016, by testing two its basic types, namely sigma and beta convergence. The analysis applied statistical measures describing the degree of labour productivity differentiation in agriculture of the EU countries and cross-sectional regression function. The research showed that sigma and beta convergence exist in general in the EU-28 countries.

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  • Zbigniew Golas, 2019. "Labour Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture of the European Union," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 9(4), pages 11-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:eco:journ1:2019-04-2
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    Keywords

    labour productivity; convergence; agriculture; EU.;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables

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