{"product_id":"consolidation-in-us-meatpacking-united-economic-research-service-ers-9781249331407","title":"Consolidation in U.S. Meatpacking","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e United Economic Research Service (Ers),James MacDonald,Michael Ollinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1249331404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781249331407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bibliogov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.10d","brand":"United Economic Research Service (Ers)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48799991300351,"sku":"9781249331407","price":16.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/consolidation-in-us-meatpacking-united-economic-research-service-ers-9781249331407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}