Agricultural Economics, 2020 (vol. 66), issue 9
Club convergence of labour productivity in agriculture: Evidence from EU countriesOriginal Paper
Arkadiusz Kijek, Tomasz Kijek, Anna Nowak
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(9):391-401 | DOI: 10.17221/178/2020-AGRICECON 
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...
Motivational factors and job satisfaction of employees in agriculture in the context of performance of agricultural companies in SlovakiaOriginal Paper
Nadežda Jankelová, Zuzana Joniaková, Anita Romanová, Katarína Remeňová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(9):402-412 | DOI: 10.17221/220/2020-AGRICECON
The aim of our research is to identify how the effectiveness of motivation and job satisfaction of employees contribute to the success of agricultural companies in Slovakia. The research sample consists of 757 employees in agricultural companies in Slovakia. Baron and Kenny's mediation model and regression ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) were also used. The hypothesis that the dependence of the business performance on the effectiveness of motivation of the employees is mediated by their job satisfaction has been confirmed. An important finding is that the direct relationship between the business performance of agricultural companies and the effectiveness...
The economic analysis of instrument variables estimation in dynamic optimal models with an application to the water consumptionOriginal Paper
Yiming He, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(9):413-423 | DOI: 10.17221/270/2020-AGRICECON
This study examines one of the most important issues in water economic research, namely, the nexus between water consumption and economic growth. Water consumption is determined by the intersection of endogenous growth function and water consumption function, neither function can be consistently identified by comparing average quantities of water consumed at different values of observed real per capita output. The contribution of this study is an investigation of the endogenous nexus between economic output and water consumption. Water consumption function is derived using an optimal dynamic equilibrium model. Two instrument variable models are proposed...
Impact of farmers' benefits linking stability on cloud farm platform of company to farmer modelOriginal Paper
Yuan Fang, Yahong Fan, Dehong Yu, Jing Shen, Wankun Jiang, Degui Yu
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2020, 66(9):424-433 | DOI: 10.17221/68/2020-AGRICECON
China has formed a new C2F (company-to-farmer) model of internet and agriculture. How to build a sustainable linkage of the C2F platform is important for promoting agricultural industrialization. Based on the cognition theory and internet thinking, we characterized the linkage mechanism and stability framework of the C2F regarding default proportion, benefits fairness and benefits gap. Using the logistic regression method, we constructed the impact effect model of benefit links stability based on the farmers' characteristics, platform cognition and social environment. We found that in the C2F, optimizing farmers' age structure (17.93%, impact effect),...