@article{Takács:201804,
      recid = {201804},
      author = {Takács, István},
      title = {Change of Labour Productivity on Farms in European Union  Member Countries (2004-2011)},
      journal = {Roczniki (Annals)},
      address = {2014},
      number = {1230-2016-99649},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {In 2004, eight Central and Eastern European countries  joined the European Union. Their agriculture
was  significantly behind the majority of the 15 former EU  member countries both from technical and  productivity
perspectives. In the common market the  competitiveness of products and producers is a key factor.  One
important factor of competitiveness is labour  productivity, which can be divided into partial factors  such as
technical equipment (tools) and the resulting  productivity from those tools. The study examines the  changes of
these two partial productivity factors in Poland  and Hungary as well as the countries integrated in 2004.  The
research question was whether the Central and Eastern  European countries were able to shorten the gap  behind
EU-15 countries. The results indicate that over the  course of a decade labour productivity in Hungarian  farms
increased, however, the pace of farm investments  lagged far behind the EU-15 countries, resulting in  more
efficient capital use. The rate of Polish farm  investments in agriculture was higher than that of the  EU-15 countries,
while the relative disadvantage in labour  productivity, as well as in capital productivity did not  decrease.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201804},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.201804},
}