Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifying this relationship has been scarce with respect to empirical literature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influence of labour productivity and related variables on the food security status of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour produ...

the energy efficiency, greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and carbon efficiency of paddy rice production were analysed in sari in the mazandaran province of iran during 2011–2012. data was collected through questionnaires and interviews with paddy producers. the results showed that the net energy gain was 27,932 mj ha-1 and energy efficiency was 1.83 during production. the results of the cobb-doug...

This paper analyses the labour efficiency in Andalusia, and takes into account demographic characteristics of Andalusian municipalities. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is methodology employed. The results obtained indicate differences at municipal level that depend on geographical arrangement, with provincial capitals being least efficient. An inverse relationship established between size muni...

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

By conducting wedge-growth accounting, we assess the contribution of economic forces (expressed as wedges in equilibrium conditions neoclassical growth model) driving Spanish from 1850 to 2019. We find that declining investment and capital-efficiency slowed down downsized labour share First World War. The crisis 1930s (Great Depression Civil War) was primarily driven by decrease labour-efficien...

This paper investigates the consequences of imperfect and uneven factor market development for farm efficiency in rural China during transition. In particular, we estimate the extent to which an inverse relationship in farm productivity can be attributed to the administrative (instead of market) allocation of land, and the extent of unevenly developed non-agricultural opportunities. Using a rec...

This short paper attempts to combine the shirking and turnover cost models into a composite model that captures the main features of each. Our main result is that in equilibrium, the elasticity of effort with respect to the wage will equal the elasticity of the average cost of labour with respect to the wage. This is a generalisation of earlier models since this condition simplifies to the fami...