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Food manufacturing and processing is an important link between agricultural producers and consumers in the agricultural supply chain. The food manufacturing sector in the United States is both increasingly mechanized and increasingly concentrated. Consequently, labor risks in food manufacturing...
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Supply chains for many agricultural products have an hour-glass shape; in between a sizable number of farmers and consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies that disruption of the processing capacity of any one...
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smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …
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costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …
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-level production and input factor choices are affected by payroll taxes …
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The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …
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production. At the same time United States experienced a "transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building …
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This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …
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productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …
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This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …
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