Although there are opposing theoretical arguments on the relationship between the strength of a country's employment protection laws (EPLs) and innovation, empirical evidence tilts towards a positive relationship. However, research has mainly focused on the early stages of the innovation process, such as R&D and patenting. This study examines the r...
Purpose This paper investigates the relationship between plot size and fertilizer use efficiency (FE) in Chinese large-scale farming and searches for the underlying mechanisms that explain this relationship. Design/methodology/approach Based on a household- and plot-level data set of large-scale production units (LSPUs) from Jiangsu and Jiangxi Pro...
status: published
This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship (IR), which states that land productivity decreases as plot size increases. While existing studies define land productivity or yields as self reported production divided by plot size, we consider an alternative approach to estimating yields based on crop c...
In the literature, several contradicting views can be found concerning rural–urban differences in individual social capital. This study combines a literature review with an empirical examination of the different points of view, applying multilevel modeling techniques on data collected from 2,332 students living across 216 municipalities. In general...
