This study compared and analyzed indigenous and modern agricultural technologies used in cassava production in Anambra State. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in sample selection. A total of 160 farmers were purposively selected from the four Agricultural zones that made up the state based on the use of modern and indigenous technologies. Data were collected using structured questionna...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

This paper presents a single unified framework that integrates the theoretical literature on Schumpeterian endogenous growth and major strands of the empirical literature on R&D, productivity growth and productivity convergence. Starting from a structural model of endogenous growth following Aghion and Howitt (1992, 1998), we provide microeconomic foundations for the reduced-form equations for ...

Our paper analyzes the causal links between human capital accumulation and growth in total factor productivity (TFP). In particular, it tests the NelsonPhelps hypothesis that human capital is crucial in enabling the imitation of technologies developed at the frontier. To this end we calculate TFP for a sample of 86 heterogeneous countries over the period 1960-1990 and investigate whether there ...

The Fisher ideal total factor productivity (TFP) index requires complete quantity and price information. If input-output quantities are allocatively efficient, the Fisher index can be approximated by the Malmquist TFP index, which does not require price information. This paper elaborates on the conditions under which the Malmquist and Fisher indexes are equivalent. Drawing from these insights, ...

in this study, total factor productivity growth of iran’s pulses (including irrigated pea, dry pea, irrigated lentil, dry lentil, irrigated soybean, dry soybean and irrigated bean) during of farming years 1989-1990 though 2007-2008 had been analyzed, using nonparametric malmquist approach. so, amounts of inputs usages include seeds, fertilizers, dung, poison, herbicide, labor, water and acreage...

Real-business-cycle models rely on total factor productivity (TFP) shocks to explain the observed co-movement between consumption, investment and hours. However an emerging body of evidence identifies “investment shocks”as important drivers of business cycles. This paper shows that a neoclassical model consistent with observed heterogeneity in labor supply and consumption across employed and no...

Based on the theory of property rights and division labor, this paper constructs mechanism rural collective system reform to promote agricultural total factor productivity (TFP). And using PSM-DID analysis impact TFP. The results show that has improved This study is beneficial objectively evaluate effect right reform, great significance explore focus key path new round under background common p...

This paper analyzes the job-to-job transitions of workers in the United States. I propose a new method of correcting the time-aggregation bias. The bias-corrected series from 1996 to 2011 reveals a procyclical pattern of job-to-job transition and a large decline since the beginning of the 2000s. I construct a model of on-the-job search and explore the implications of this phenomenon. The calibr...