Determinants of microregional agricultural labour productivity: Evidence from Czechia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determinants of microregional agricultural labour productivity: Evidence from Czechia

Original language description

In this paper we aimed to explain differences in agricultural labour productivity at microregional level. We tested the effects of three major independent variables ? farmland fragmentation, urbanization economies and farm size structure with particular emphasis on the relationship between farmland fragmentation and microregional patterns of agricultural labour productivity. There are two basic dimensions of farmland fragmentation. First is land-use fragmentation understood as a fragmentation of agricultural land into small plots that are physically separated. Second is ownership fragmentation, defined as a situation when ownership of agricultural land is split between many owners that operate on small and often irregularly shaped plots. Land-use fragmentation does not necessarily correspond with ownership fragmentation. Even in case of highly fragmented ownership, there is a possibility that the use of agricultural land can be consolidated through lease agreements into large regular fields. Therefore, ownership fragmentation does not necessarily hamper farm productivity. On the other hand, farmers operating on rented land are on average less productive than those operating on their own land. Our principal research question asks if larger average size of plots is positively related to microregional agricultural labour productivity despite potentially negative effects of land tenure. Drawing on a case study of Czechia ? a country with extremely fragmented farmland ownership, but the largest average size of plots in the EU and a strong role of farmland rental market - we confirmed this initial expectation and also found non-significant effects of urbanization economies and farm size structure on microregional agricultural labour productivity.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-03207S" target="_blank" >GA15-03207S: Economic performance of Central European non-metropolitan regions</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Geography

ISSN

0143-6228

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Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

83-94

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