Worksharing: How Much Productive Efficiency, at What Cost and at What Price?

Robert H. Cohen, Matthew H. Robinson, John D. Waller and Spyros S. Xenakis
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Robert H. Cohen: Postal Rate Commission
Matthew H. Robinson: Postal Rate Commission
John D. Waller: Postal Rate Commission
Spyros S. Xenakis: Postal Rate Commission

Chapter Chapter 9 in Progress toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, 2006, pp 141-152 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Worksharing refers to upstream postal activities, such as presortation and barcoding, performed by mailers or third parties to obtain discounts on postage for reducing the post’s upstream costs. From a practical regulatory point-of-view the primary purpose of worksharing is to lower society’s cost of production (i.e., to increase productive efficiency) by allowing customers and third parties to perform upstream activities when their costs are lower than the post’s. Previous studies by the authors have shown that the increase in productive efficiency can be quite substantial (Cohen, et al. 2002, Cohen, et al. 2004).

Keywords: Total Factor Productivity; Productive Efficiency; Volume Growth; Price Signal; Upstream Activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-29744-6_9

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