scholarly journals Decomposition of agricultural labor productivity growth and its regional disparity in China

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangfei Xin ◽  
Fu Qin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Regional Disparity ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Labor Productivity

scholarly journals Capital Obsolescence and Agricultural Productivity*

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (1) ◽  
pp. 505-561
Author(s):  
Julieta Caunedo ◽  
Elisa Keller
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Agricultural Labor Productivity ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
Price Differences ◽  
Do So

Abstract This article argues that accounting for capital-embodied technology greatly increases the importance of capital in explaining cross-country differences in agricultural labor productivity. To do so, we draw on a novel data set of agricultural capital prices. We document that new capital is more expensive in richer countries, both in absolute terms and relative to old capital. A model of endogenous adoption of capital of different quality links these price differences to the path of capital-embodied technology. In particular, our model recovers the level of embodied technology from the price of new capital and the growth rate of embodied technology from the price of new capital relative to old capital. We then measure the stocks of quality-adjusted capital in agriculture for a sample of 16 countries at different stages of development. We find that adjusting for differences in quality almost doubles the importance of capital in accounting for cross-country differences in agricultural labor productivity: from 21% to 37%. In addition, improvements in capital quality have been an important source of agricultural labor productivity growth over the past 25 years, accounting for 21% and 35% of the productivity growth in poor and rich countries, respectively.

Opportunities for accelerating labor productivity growth: The role of small and medium enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
Evguenia V. Bessonova ◽  
Alexander G. Morozov ◽  
Natalia A. Turdyeva ◽  
Anna N. Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Firms

The paper considers necessary conditions for acceleration of labor productivity growth in Russia. Based on micro data, as well as aggregate data, the paper quantifies the contribution of small and medium firms to labor productivity growth. It shows that mere increase of the number of small and medium enterprises is not as important for positive effects of these programs, as qualitative improvements: development of favorable environment for growth, which is largely determined by business climate. Accelerating productivity growth involves redistribution of labor and capital from inefficient to efficient enterprises. In particular, it is necessary to create conditions, which allow a firm to grow after it enters the market instead of stagnating as a small firm with low efficiency. At the same time, it is necessary for ineffective firms, which exhausted their growth potential, to have an opportunity to exit the market easily leaving resources including labor to fast-growing companies.

The Impact of Heat Waves on Agricultural Labor Productivity and Output

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Federico Castillo ◽  
Armando Sánchez Vargas ◽  
J. K. Gilless ◽  
Michael Wehner
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Agricultural Labor Productivity ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Intangible Assets and Labor Productivity Growth

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Carolina Hintzmann ◽  
Josep Lladós-Masllorens ◽  
Raul Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Intangible Asset ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Different Types ◽  
European Economies ◽  
D Investment

We examine the contribution to labor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector of investment in different intangible asset categories—computerized information, innovative property, and economic competencies—for a set of 18 European countries between 1995 and 2017, as well as whether this contribution varies between different groups of countries. The motivation is to go a step further and identify which single or combination of intangible assets are relevant. The main findings can be summarized as follows. Firstly, all the three different categories of intangible assets contribute to labor productivity growth. In particular, intangible assets related to economic competences together with innovative property assets have been identified as the main drivers; specifically, advertising and marketing, organizational capital, research and development (R&D) investment, and design. Secondly, splitting the sample of European Union (EU) member states into three groups—northern, central and southern Europe—allows for the identification of a significant differentiated behavior between and within groups, in terms of the effects of investment in intangible assets on labor productivity growth. We conclude that measures promoting investment in intangibles at EU level should be accompanied by specific measures focusing on each country’s needs, for the purpose of promoting labor productivity growth. The obtained evidence suggests that the solution for the innovation deficit of some European economies consist not only of raising R&D expenditure, but also exploiting complementarities between different types of assets.

scholarly journals Managed attenuation of the mining enterprise as a component of the development strategy of the territory

2020 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Yadransky ◽  
Elena Chumak ◽  
Rinat Latypov
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Middle Urals ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Industrial Region ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Mining Enterprise ◽  
Logical Modeling

The article critically examines the positive and negative consequences of labor productivity growth at mining enterprises in the conditions of the old industrial region. It is suggested that for enterprises of the middle Urals it is necessary to form a mining production development strategy based on the directions of the regional strategy, which is not always connected with labor productivity growth by increasing mining volumes. The article is aimed at studying the factors affecting the prospects of mining enterprises activity from the standpoint of choosing strategic alternatives to their development. The methods of analysis: logical analysis, structural analysis, logical modeling, literature analysis. Using the logical modeling method, the following hypothesis was verified: that mining enterprises strategic development features in the conditions of an old industrial region should consider the strategy of municipalities in which these enterprises are located. For such mining enterprises, the increase in productivity through increased production is not unequivocally positive. It is concluded that in order to ensure the activities coherence of regions and enterprises, it is necessary to ensure balanced development, which can be achieved through the application of a managed strategy attenuation of the mining enterprise.

scholarly journals The potential for labor productivity growth in the context of digital transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Marina A. Borovskaya ◽  
Marina A. Masych ◽  
Tatyana V. Fedosova
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth

Labor productivity growth factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Niazi Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Growth Factors ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
Labor Productivity Growth ◽  
Domestic Enterprise

The modern strategy of economic development of Russia, which is aimed at restructuring the economy, requires, first of all, the search for new and improvement of existing ways of increasing labor productivity at any domestic enterprise. That is why the issues of creating effective motives and incentives for increasing labor productivity as an important tool for the development of an industrial enterprise are relevant.

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