Consolidation in U.S. Meatpacking
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Meatpacking consolidated rapidly in the last two decades: slaughter plants became much larger, and concentration increased as smaller firms left the industry. We use establishment-based data from the U.S. Census Bureau to describe consolidation and to identify the roles of scale economies and technological change in driving consolidation. Through the 1970's, larger plants paid higher wages, generating a pecuniary scale diseconomy that largely offset the cost advantages that technological scale economies offered large plants. The larger plants' wage premium disappeared in the 1980's, and technological change created larger and more extensive technological scale economies. As a result, large plants realized growing cost advantages over smaller plants, and production shifted to larger plants.
Release date Australia
September 11th, 2012
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Audience
- General (US: Trade)
Contributor
- Created by United Economic Research Service (Ers)
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Imprint
Bibliogov
Pages
50
Publisher
Bibliogov
Dimensions
189x246x3
ISBN-13
9781249331407
Product ID
23812508
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