Melvyn A. Fuss, Leonard Waverman

Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production

The Challenge of Japanese Efficiency

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book the authors analyse the factors that contributed to the comparative cost competitiveness of auto industries over the period 1961 84.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521031752
• ISBN-10: 0521031753
• Artikelnr.: 21360400

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. International differences in output, productivity and wages in the automobile industry: the 1950s to the mid-1980s
3. The cost-function approach to the analysis of cost and total factor productivity differences
4. Data base sources and method of construction
5. Empirical results: estimation of the cost function
6. Productivity growth in the automobile industry, 1970-84: a comparison of the United States, Japan, Germany and Canada
7. International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Japan, Germany and the United States
8. International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Canadian with US, Japanese and German production
9. Summary and conclusions
References
Index.