In:
Cahiers d'Economie et sociologie rurales, PERSEE Program, Vol. 20, No. 1 ( 1991), p. 63-90
Abstract:
Productivity surpluses development and distribution in the European agricultural sectors from 1967 to 1987 . For about fifteen years the evolution of the European farm income has been adverse. The aim of this study was to identify the involved factors, going back to the late sixties. The surplus accounting method has been applied which allows the separation between the effects due to the productivity of factors and thoses linked to price variations, of bot h products and factors. It appears that, during the last twenty years, in Europe, productivity gains increased steadily. Investment, production growth, and improvement of labour productivity without noticeable change in the productivity of capital, are the main characteristics of a model which is prédominant in most of the countries. This shows that the drop in agricultural prices, linked to an excess in production, plays a major role in income drop. Nevertheless, from the eighties, one can notice a change in the formation of productivity gains, based on eut in inputs : desinvestment, rehabilitation of the productivity of intermediary consumption. The main limit to this adjustment is the quasifixity of family labour.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0755-9208
DOI:
10.3406/reae.1991.1268
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
1991
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2261915-X
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