Regional diversity of capital-labour ratio, labour productivity and total factor productivity in Poland in 1995–2009 Cover Image

Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie technicznego uzbrojenia pracy, wydajności pracy i łącznej produkcyjności czynników produkcji w Polsce w latach 1995–2009
Regional diversity of capital-labour ratio, labour productivity and total factor productivity in Poland in 1995–2009

Author(s): Katarzyna Mroczek, Tomasz Tokarski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at descriptive and statistical analyzing of spatial diversification of main macroeconomic categories, such as capital-labor ratio, labor productivity and total factor productivity across Polish regions/voivodships in the years 1995–2009. The capital-labor ratio is associated in the paper with fixed assets per employee, the labor productivity – with GDP per employee, whereas total factor productivity is computed on the basis of a regional production function. The article contains and comments on, firstly: descriptive analyses of spatial diversification of the afore-mentioned characteristics, secondly: estimates of the Cobb-Douglas production function at regional level, thirdly: estimates of total factor productivity across the voivodships and finally: descriptive results of special diversity of the afore-mentioned characteristics.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 88
  • Page Range: 333-357
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish