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Technology structure and productivity change in the U.S. meat products industry

Creator:

Xia, Yin

Abstract:

The performance of the meat products industry, the largest food processing sector in the U.S. in terms of shipment value, is an important issue. A key indicator of its performance is productivity growth, which results in reduction in the cost of production at given input prices. The present study employs...

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Masters Thesis

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, and the state of technology over time (p.50. Antle and Capaibo, 1988). Technological change can be
The comparison of productivity growth in the U.S. and Mexican food processing sectors

Creator:

Alpay, Ebru

Abstract:

In this study, the rates of technological change in food processing sectors of U.S. and Mexico are compared through econometric estimation of both the unrestricted (long-run) and restricted (short-run) profit functions with first order autocorrelation correction. Then, the dual rate of productivity growth is computed and decomposed into its sources....

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Masters Thesis

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the time variable which is a proxy for the state of technology. The primal rate of technological
Automatic bar code data collection, forest products industry

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Oregon State University. College of Business, Oregon State University. College of Forestry, and Malecha, Geoffrey

Abstract:

American industry is rapidly putting automatic data collection to work tracking raw materials, work-in-process (WJP), finished goods, labor, and time & attendance. Automatic data collection using bar codes, radio frequency data communications (RFDC), radio frequency identification tags (RFID), electronic data interchange (EDI), and other technologies are responsible for improved inventory...

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Technical Report