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Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie łącznej produktywności czynników produkcji w grupach powiatów
Spatial variability of total factor productivity in county groups

Author(s): Paweł Dykas, Tomasz Misiak
Subject(s): National Economy, Law on Economics, Public Finances
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: TFP; TFP spatial variability; flexibility in labor productivity towards capital-labor ratio

Summary/Abstract: The authors of this paper attempt estimating the spatial variability of total factor productivity (TFP) at the level of selected groups of counties in Poland between the years 2003–2014. 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 level of voivodships to the level of counties. The analysis was carried out in three proposed groups: a group of city counties, a group of urban-featured land counties as well as in a group of rural-featured counties, assuming differentiation of flexibility in labor productivity towards technical capital-labor ratio in each analyzed group.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 109
  • Page Range: 205-224
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish