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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrant workforce and labour productivity in Italian agriculture: a farm-level analysis [PDF]

open access: green, 2018
Edoardo Baldoni   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Regional Labour Productivity in The Netherlands - Diversification and Agglomeration Economies [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the extent to which diversification and agglomeration effects account for regional differences in labour productivity levels and labour productivity growth.
Jan Oosterhaven, Lourens Broersma
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INNOVATIONS AS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR INFLUENCING LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

open access: yesEkonomski Vjesnik, 2016
Economic science has long recognized labour productivity as an important factor of economic growth. In the uncertain conditions of increasingly fierce and complex competition, it becomes one of the key prerequisites for an adequate response to global ...
Marija Bušelić, Patricija Pavlišić
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Projections of global labour productivity under climate change

open access: gold, 2020
Nicole van Maanen   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Productivity and economic growth in Switzerland 1991-2005 [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we analyse the sources of economic growth in Switzerland during the period 1991-2005. The results suggest that labour input and capital input contribute 0.57 pp and 0.45 pp, respectively, to the average annual GDP growth of 1.28%.
Barbara Rudolf, Mathias Zurlinden
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Productive force and labour productivity [PDF]

open access: yesScience in figures, 2017
Viktor Ivanovich Kulik   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labour productivity: Is the such a measure? (The case of greek industry)

open access: green, 1988
George P. Cosmetatos   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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