The Spatial Variability of Total Factor Productivity in County Groups
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https://doi.org/10.26485/SPE/2018/109/13Keywords:
TFP, TFP spatial variability, flexibility in labor productivity towards capital-labor ratio.Abstract
The authors of this paper attempt to estimate the spatial variability of total factor productivity (TFP) at the county level in Poland between 2003 and 2014. Due to the nonmeasurability of the analyzed variable, TFP was estimated by means of the Cobb-Douglas production macroeconomic function. However, in order to calculate TFP, the authors disaggregated GDP from the voivodship level to the county level. The analysis was carried out in three proposed groups: city counties, land counties with urban features, as well as counties with rural features. This allowed us to differentiate flexibility in labor productivity with respect to the technical capital-labor ratio in each analyzed group.
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