This chapter presents methodologies for evaluating the economic performance of a port. This performance may be evaluated from the standpoint of technical efficiency, cost efficiency and effectiveness by comparing the port's actual throughput with its economic technically efficient, cost...

This paper uses individual worker and municipal information to examine privatization's influence on public transit workers' earnings and employment. OLS findings on labor earnings reveal that privatization is associated with an erosion of the public transit union premium. These labor earning...

This chapter investigates the separate earnings pattern of managers, union, and non-union employees in the U.S. rail industry during regulatory and deregulatory regimes. Such an empirical investigation is significant, in part, because economic theory does not provide an obvious prediction on...

This paper examines regional wage patterns of low- and high-wage dockworkers following deregulation. Findings reveal significant wage premium increases for low-wage dockworkers residing in the East and West Coasts following the initial deregulation in 1984. These premium gains surpass...

This chapter presents an economic theory of the port that considers both the demand for and cost incurred for the two-cargo (bulk and container) throughput of the port. Port-generalized prices include port charges and time prices incurred by ocean carriers', inland carriers' and shippers' ships,...