Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to improve the yield of a particular model of a car windshield, as the organization faces losses due to poor performance and rejection. Design/methodology/approach: The Six Sigma DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve and control) methodology is used to...

While economic studies assume that labor markets are in equilibrium, there may be specialized labor markets likely in disequilibrium. We develop a new methodology to improve the estimation of a reduced form disequilibrium model from the existing models by incorporating survey-based shortage...