Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between manufacturing and consumption prices – together with a high...

The demand for high quality, safe, nutritious processed foods will continue to increase as the global population and affluence increases. This imposes an enormous burden on the environment and the food processing industry has responded by making progress in reducing the carbon and water footprints of products and the amount of waste generated. However, environmental sustainability cannot be con...

Saccharomyces uvarum is one species of a genus which has an extensive history of use in the fermentation and food processing industry. S. uvarum, also called S. bayanus, is referred to as a "wine yeast" due to their broad use in the production of wines. Taxonomically, S. uvarum is closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. S. cerevesiae is the used extensively in the baking of bread and the p...

Recent theoretical models show that international trade can induce within-industry skillupgrading by raising R&D intensity and creating skill-biased technologies. This paper tests this assertion by estimating the effect of rising import shares on wage shares for 4-digit SIC US manufacturing industries. Using Arellano-Bond estimation to account for the endogeneity of imports, I find that neither...

Third party Logistics is a new type of industry where the firm‘s logistics activities can be outsourced. The concept of Third party logistics has been developed from the need to extend transportation services by transportation companies to its customers. Many manufacturing industries turned to logistics outsourcing to restructure their distribution networks and gain competitive advantages. This...

This paper examines firms’ competitiveness in the seafood processing industry in Vietnam and policy changes for global integration. We find that trade liberalization is a very important policy change that has generally positive impacts and generates strong reactions in the seafood processing industry. Exchange rate depreciation is also an important factor and receives strong responsiveness as m...

This paper deals with the improvement of productivity of a multi product manufacturing industry. The authors identified the obstacles which make the improvement in the productivity of a Manufacturing Industry as infeasible. The authors instructed some suggestions with IE tools and techniques for removing those obstacles. Keywords— Productivity, Batch production, Work sampling, Time study, Cause...

Apple pomace is a by-product from the apple processing industry and has the potential to support the growth of microorganisms. In this study, the effect of apple pomace on the growth rate of Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium was investigated. The mycelial growth dramatically increased by 34.5, 20 and 26% in solid culture, liquid culture, and solid-state fermentation, respectively, by adding 2.5% app...