Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(9):391-401 | DOI: 10.17221/178/2020-AGRICECON

Club convergence of labour productivity in agriculture: Evidence from EU countriesOriginal Paper

Arkadiusz Kijek1, Tomasz Kijek2, Anna Nowak*,3
1 Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
2 Department of Microeconomics and Applied Economics, Faculty of Economics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
3 Department of Economics and Agribusiness, Faculty of Agrobioengineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

This paper studies club convergence in relation to labour productivity in the agriculture industry of 28 European Union countries for the period 2005 to 2018. The countries were divided into three groups which were homogeneous in terms of level of development in the agricultural sector. The presence of convergence in the groups of countries was verified by using a panel-data model of conditional β-convergence. Then, convergence processes were investigated within clubs of countries. Convergence processes took place in the groups of countries with low and medium levels of labour productivity. In the club of countries where labour productivity was high, opposite processes (i.e. divergence) were observed.

Keywords: agricultural sector; convergence processes; European Union; panel model; productivity

Published: September 30, 2020  Show citation

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