Every year, approximately 27% of all jobs in the U.S. truck transportation sector (NAICS 484) are reshuffled across … transportation, with a special emphasis on the roles of carrier age and on job creation and destruction dynamics in the manufacturing … sector, the source of demand for most trucking ton-miles. In doing so, we draw on and extend theory in both supply chain …

manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of … the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous firms. The model generates predictions about how the intensity of …

We study how the objective of the contributions affects the willingness to contribute to real-life public goods. We … sustainable supplies. We use the results to derive practical implications for the design of fundraising for public goods …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … mid-20th century U.S. railroads. This is due to the fact that transportation has vastly different productivities in … inputs does not deny the real improvements in the quality of trucking services (reliability, predictability, speed, order …

After a period of regulatory changes in the early 1980s we are faced with "new" freight transportation labor markets in … transportation, with a focus on wage differentials across industries and occupations. Our aim is to provide stylized facts. We find …

seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …