Produktywność czynników wytwórczych w przemyśle spożywczym w Polsce

The article examines the changes in the productivity of factors of production in food industry in the years 1997–2006. The theoretical part of the paper presents the methods of productivity measurement and the most frequently used indexes. The empirical part shows the changes of labour and capital productivity indexes in particular branches of food industry in the studied period. It was stated that when the production in Polish food industry grew, there was a simultaneous increase in labour productivity and decrease in capital productivity. Thus, there was a process of input substitution which resulted in the replacement of the labour by the capital