Wybrane determinanty wydajności pracy i technicznego uzbrojenia pracy w polskich województwach (w latach 1995-2012)

Sławomir Kuźmar

Abstract

The aim of the paper was an attempt to analyze the regional diversification of labour productivity and its proximate and intermediate determinant in Poland's provinces in 1995-2012, based on Cobb-Douglas production function. The conducted analysis indicate that the labour productivity among Polish provinces was very heterogeneous. The high level of diversity was also observed in the capital to labour ratio. Empirical evidence shows that there exists a relation between TFP level and the human capital and R&D expenditures, in a way that 1 percent increase in the human capital stock would raise total factor productivity by 2.37 percent. The same percentage increase in the public R&D expenditures, would boost regional TFP by 0.24 percent.