Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 International differences in output, productivity, and wages in the automobile industry: the 1950s to the mid-1980s
- Chapter 3 The cost-function approach to the analysis of cost and total factor productivity differences
- Chapter 4 Data base sources and method of construction
- Chapter 5 Empirical results: estimation of the cost function
- Chapter 6 Productivity growth in the automobile industry, 1970–1984: a comparison of the United States, Japan, Germany, and Canada
- Chapter 7 International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Japan, Germany, and the United States
- Chapter 8 International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Canadian with U.S., Japanese, and German production
- Chapter 9 Summary and conclusions
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 International differences in output, productivity, and wages in the automobile industry: the 1950s to the mid-1980s
- Chapter 3 The cost-function approach to the analysis of cost and total factor productivity differences
- Chapter 4 Data base sources and method of construction
- Chapter 5 Empirical results: estimation of the cost function
- Chapter 6 Productivity growth in the automobile industry, 1970–1984: a comparison of the United States, Japan, Germany, and Canada
- Chapter 7 International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Japan, Germany, and the United States
- Chapter 8 International comparisons of automobile industry cost and productivity levels: Canadian with U.S., Japanese, and German production
- Chapter 9 Summary and conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
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- Costs and Productivity in Automobile ProductionThe Challenge of Japanese Efficiency, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992