<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Drawing on empirical evidence from the Czech Republic, differences in agricultural labour productivity at the micro-regional level are examined. The role of geographical factors: natural conditions, landscape fragmentation, localisation and urbanization economies, are discussed. In addition, we also test the effects of farm size structure to capture the results of internal scale economies. The key importance of natural conditions is confirmed: they were significantly more important than farm characteristics such as size structure, ownership status and mode of production. Regional agricultural labour productivity was positively influenced by the nominal price of agricultural land and population density. Surprisingly, micro-regions dominated by large farms performed at lower productivity levels than micro-regions with fragmented farm size structure in the Czech Republic.</p></abstract>

Drawing on empirical evidence from the Czech Republic, differences in agricultural labour productivity at the micro-regional level are examined. The role of geographical factors: natural conditions, landscape fragmentation, localisation and urbanization economies, are discussed. In addition, we also test the effects of farm size structure to capture the results of internal scale economies. The key importance of natural conditions is confirmed: they were significantly more important than farm characteristics such as size structure, ownership status and mode of production. Regional agricultural labour productivity was positively influenced by the nominal price of agricultural land and population density. Surprisingly, micro-regions dominated by large farms performed at lower productivity levels than micro-regions with fragmented farm size structure in the Czech Republic.

Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis

Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Drawing on empirical evidence from the Czech Republic, differences in agricultural labour productivity at the micro-regional level are examined. The role of...

Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis

Published Online: Jan 22, 2016

Page range: 14 - 25

Received: Apr 13, 2015

Accepted: Oct 02, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0021

Keywords
agriculture, labour productivity, micro-region, localisation economies, urbanisation economies, Czech Republic

© 2015 Jan Ženka et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Labour productivity of agricultural business companies and cooperatives in the Czech Republic: A micro-regional level analysis

Published Online: Jan 22, 2016

Page range: 14 - 25

Received: Apr 13, 2015

Accepted: Oct 02, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0021

Keywordsagriculture, labour productivity, micro-region, localisation economies, urbanisation economies, Czech Republic

© 2015 Jan Ženka et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
agriculture, labour productivity, micro-region, localisation economies, urbanisation economies, Czech Republic