Productivity at the post: its drivers and its distribution
Grifell-Tatjé, Emili (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa)
Lovell, C. A. Knox (University of Georgia. Department of Economics)

Date:	2008
Abstract:	We study the productivity, financial and distributional performance of the United States Postal Service subsequent to its 1971 reorganization. We investigate the magnitude and the economic drivers of productivity change (technical change, change in cost efficiency, and scale economies), and we investigate the distribution of the financial benefits of productivity change (among consumers of postal services, postal employees and other resource suppliers, and residual claimants). We find improvements in technology to have been the main driver of, and diseconomies of scale to have been the main drag on, productivity change. We find labor to have been the main beneficiary, and consumers of postal services the main losers, from postal reorganization.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Productivity ; Profit ; Distribution ; Postal service
Published in:	Journal of regulatory economics, Vol. 33 Núm. 2 (April 2008) , p. 133-158, ISSN 0922-680X

DOI: 10.1007/s11149-007-9051-y

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