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Abstract
This paper investigates the factors responsible for a drastic decline in the growth rate of labor productivity of the
agricultural sector for the 1956-90 period. This investigation is carried out by a newly devised procedure which
decomposes the growth rate of labor productivity into (1) the total substitution effect which consists of the effects
due to factor price changes and biased technological change, and (2) the TFP effect composed of the effects due to
scale economies and technological progress. Based on empirical estimation of the translog cost function, it was found
that the total substitution effect contributed to the growth of labor productivity much more than the TFP effect did
for the period under question.