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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Why have the dynamics of labor productivity changed? [PDF]
The strength of the nascent economic recovery--and of the labor market--will depend importantly on labor productivity. By itself, faster productivity growth contributes to faster output growth. At the same time, stronger productivity gains allow firms to
Willem Van Zandweghe
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Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple +2 more
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An International Comparison of Productivity Change in Agriculture and the Economy as a Whole [PDF]
A common and longstanding assumption in the economic growth literature has been that total factor productivity growth is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy.
Fernado S. Machado, Nuno Moutinho
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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An Analysis and Assessment of Health Contribution to Increasing Labor Productivity: A Case Study of Iran [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2007 Labor force and its quality (human capital) have made large contribution to economic growth and development in many countries. Health is also considered as a way to improve both labor quality and productivity.
Alireza Amini, Zohre Hejazi Azad
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Time Series Analysis of Causal Relationship among Sectoral Labor Productivity in Turkey
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2017 In this paper, we investigate the causal relationship in terms of labor productivity among GDP and its constituent three main sectors, e.g. agricultural, industrial and services sectors, in Turkey for the period of 1988-2015.
Cevher Özden, Filiz Yetiz
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Labor Mobility and Productivity Growth [PDF]
Growth models of learning-by-doing assume that knowledge learned in produc- tion gets freely and instantly spread to the whole economy. As a result, the econ- omy exhibits aggregate increasing returns and the total factor productivity (TFP) growth is ...
Fernando Sanchez-Losada +2 more
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The Shimer Puzzle and the Correct Identification of Productivity Shocks [PDF]
Shimer (2005a) claims that the Mortensen-Pissarides search model of unemployment lacks an ampiflication mechanism because it cannot generate the observed business cycle fluctuations in unemployment given labor productivity shocks of plausible magnitude ...
Régis Barnichon
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