EJPAU 2005. Błażejczyk-Majka L. , Kala R. THE EFFECT OF TECHNICAL CHANGE IN FRENCH AGRICULTURE, 1980

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2005
Volume 8
Issue 3

Topic:

Economics

ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
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AGRICULTURAL
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Błażejczyk-Majka L. , Kala R. 2005. THE EFFECT OF TECHNICAL CHANGE IN FRENCH AGRICULTURE, 1980 - 1999, EJPAU 8(3), #02.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume8/issue3/abs-02.html

THE EFFECT OF TECHNICAL CHANGE IN FRENCH AGRICULTURE, 1980 - 1999

Lucyna Błażejczyk-Majka¹, Radosław Kala²
¹ Institute of History, The Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland
² Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland

ABSTRACT

In the paper the Hicksian hypothesis postulating that technical change is directed first of all at saving of these production factors, the price of which increases faster than the prices of the other factors, is verified in case of French agriculture, 1980-1999. The analysis was performed basing on the two-level CES production function with the use of four main production factors: labour, fixed capital, working capital, and land. It was established that different patterns of technical change were induced by differences in the relative factor prices changes, so the generalized Hicksian hypothesis in French agriculture was confirmed. However, considering only the use of separate pairs of production factors with respect to their prices and to the biases of technical change, indicates areas in which the Hicks conjecture is not satisfied.

Key words: technical change, Hicksian hypothesis, production function.

Lucyna Błażejczyk-Majka
Institute of History,
The Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland
św. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznań, Poland
phone: (+4861) 8294758, (+4861) 8294725
email: lmajka10@wp.poznan.pl

Radosław Kala
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods,
Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
Wojska Polskiego 28, 60–637 Poznań, Poland
phone: (+4861) 8487140, (+4861) 8487150
email: kalar@au.poznan.pl

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