The Common Agricultural Policy and productivity gains in Romanian agriculture: is there any evidence of convergence to the Western European realities?

Do operating subsidies increase labour productivity in Polish farms?

“…It can be pointed out that increasing the size of farms and their equipment allows them to become more independent from operating subsidies. Similar results were obtained by Jitea and Pocol (2014) for agriculture in Romania. Hornowski et al (2020) indicates that operating subsidies in small farms in Poland make it possible to maintain the level of personal income of farmers at an acceptable level, and to a lesser extent have a pro-development function.…”

“…For individual countries, it was also found that the first increase was achieved in the size of the activity for which support could be obtained, but no increase in productivity, including labour productivity, was achieved (Skreli et al, 2015), or that this increase was lower than expected (Bajrami et al, 2019). This may be explained by the ineffective use of inputs, so that increasing them does not lead to an increase in production (Jitea and Pocol, 2014). For agricultural subsidies and support to bring the intended results, support should be directed towards overcoming barriers to the development of farms that have been identified in a particular country (Yanwen et al, 2013).…”

“…It was also observed that the effects of subsidies are visible only after several years of support (Jitea and Pocol, 2014), implying that research results based on short-term data may yield inconclusive results. For individual countries, it was also found that the first increase was achieved in the size of the activity for which support could be obtained, but no increase in productivity, including labour productivity, was achieved (Skreli et al, 2015), or that this increase was lower than expected (Bajrami et al, 2019).…”

Agricultural Resources and their Productivity: A Transatlantic Perspective

“…Partial factor productivity indicators were used e.g., by Bureau and Butault (1992), Alston et al (2010), Martin-Retortillo and Pinilla (2012), Petrick and Kloss (2012), Cherlet et al (2013), Takács (2014), Smędzik-Ambroży and Majchrzak (2017), Diao et al (2018), Gołaś (2019), and Kusz (2020). In turn, the total factor productivity (TFP) approach was employed by Ahearn et al (1998), Davidova et al (2003), Coelli and Prasada Rao (2005), Latruffe et al (2008), Jin et al (2010), Ludena (2010), Gasques et al (2012), Rahman and Salim (2013), Jitea and Pocol (2014), Nin-Pratt (2015), Wang et al (2015), Anik et al (2017), , Kijek and Matras-Bolibok (2019), Liu et al (2020) or Sheng et al (2020).…”