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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Compositionand the Measurement of Labor Productivityin the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appearsto be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are duesimply to changes...
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Measuring the comprehensive wage effect of changes in unit labor cost
Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 4 (2015), pp. 1-12
Unit labor cost (ULC) is defined as labor compensation per value added. It captures the cost competitiveness of industries and countries. As labor compensation is wage multiplied by hours worked or number of people employed, it is easy to show that ULC is wage divided by labor productivity....
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Looking Beyond the Methods : Productivity Estimates and Growth Trends in Indian Manufacturing
Gupta, Abhay - 2009
Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates. This paper performs detailed and exhaustive set of accounting exercises for the period 1970-2003 using production function, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP...
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Growth of Factor Productivity in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry at Provincial Level
Karadag, Metin; Onder, A. Ozlem; Deliktas, Ertugrul - 2005
indices decomposed into two components, namely efficiency change and technical change. The results show that many of the …
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Korean and Taiwanese Productivity Performance : Comparisons at Matched Manufacturing Levels
Hsiao, Frank S.T. - 2011
We compare the productivity performances of 15 matched manufacturing sectors in Korea and Taiwan, using the Malmquist productivity indexes, based on category-wise meta frontiers, 1978-1996. Comparisons at the sector levels are made using sequential multiplicative products of the indexes. The...
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Evidence for the effects of mergers on market power and efficiency
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Pierce, Justin R. - 2016
-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …
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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?
Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015
Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … efficiency change using a Tobit regression for each industry. The results reveal that TFPG declined for all the sectors during … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …
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Key Parameters and Efficiency of Mexican Manufacturing : Are There Still Differences between the North and the South? An Application of Nested and Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Mo...
Braun, Frauke G. - 2009
use stochastic frontier analysis methods to test for productivity and efficiency differences in manufacturing throughout … frontier estimations confirm very similar regional patterns. Nevertheless, efficiency varies strongly within states, indicating …
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Efficiency and Outsourcing : Evidence from Australian Manufacturing
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2014
This paper studies the role of efficiency in a firm's decision to contract out. Emphasis is on the heterogeneous nature … manufacturing reveal an ordering of efficiency between firms that contract out and those that do not, in which contracting-out firms … are on aggregate less efficient. The analysis further shows that firms experience improvement in their efficiency soon …
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