Productivity of Agricultural Labour and Land: An International Comparison
比较了1975年和1980年不同世界地区的农业劳动力和土地生产率，发现发达国家高于发展中国家，且劳动力生产率差异更大，同时提出了一种新的估计方法。
Abstract This paper examines partial agricultural land and labour productivity in 1975 and 1980, for different world regions. The results suggest that land and labour productivity are higher in developed countries relative to developing countries. However, agricultural labour productivity differences are more marked than those for agricultural land productivity. The productivity values for 1975 and 1980 indicate a widening of productivity differences, more so in the case of agricultural labour than land. The paper also proposes an alternative approach to estimating agricultural land and labour productivity. This approach, which regresses agricultural labour productivity on a given level of agricultural land productivity, suggests a narrowing of agricultural land productivity differences, relative to the initial approach, across Africa, Asia and Europe during the 1975‐1980 period. A brief discussion of the agricultural development policy implications of the results concludes the paper.