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2006
Volume 9
Issue 3
Topic:
Economics
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Błażejczyk-Majka L. , Kala R. , Maciejewski K. 2006. SUBSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION FACTORS IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF SELECTED EU COUNTRIES, 1980–2002, EJPAU 9(3), #05.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue3/abs-05.html

SUBSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION FACTORS IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF SELECTED EU COUNTRIES, 1980–2002

Lucyna Błażejczyk-Majka1, Radosław Kala2, Krzysztof Maciejewski3
1 Institute of History, The Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Poland
2 Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
3 Department of Product Ecology, The Poznań University of Economics, Poznań, Poland

 

ABSTRACT



The substitutability of fixed capital and labour in agricultural production of ten European Union countries, in the 1980-2002 period, is considered in this study. The elasticity of substitution of these input factors was estimated with the use of the CES production function supplemented by a disembodied Hicks-neutral effect of technical change. On this basis we present and compare price changes and their influence on the use of input factors in agriculture of selected UE countries. The productivity of labour and capital are also investigated.

Key words: CES production function; elasticity of substitution; technical change; factor productivity.


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

Krzysztof Maciejewski
Department of Product Ecology,
The Poznań University of Economics, Poznań, Poland
Al. Niepodległości 10, 60-967 Poznań, Poland
email: krzysztof.maciejewski@ae.poznan.pl

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