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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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    the time variable which is a proxy for the state of technology. The primal rate of technological