Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal

Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal

Handling freight in a crossdocking terminal is labor-intensive, and therefore costly, because workers must unload, sort, and transfer a wide variety of freight from incoming to outgoing trailers. The eÆciency of workers depends, in large part, on how trailers are assigned to doors around the dock; that is, on its layout. A good layout reduces travel distances without creating congestion, but, u...

Reducing Labor Costs: Choosing

Case Study: Reducing Labor Costs Using Industrial Engineering Techniques

To achieve productivity improvements in manufacturing companies, application of new technology or adoption of mass production may not always be possible.The most practical approach is to attack the work process itself—that is, review and redesign the operations and apply automation and mechanization.In such cases,a productivity audit employing industrial engineering (IE) techniques is used for ...

Global and European Labor Costs

Multinational companies and national governments pay considerable attention to labor cost and labor productivity differentials across countries. This paper analyzes total and unit labor differentials for a group of European and non-European countries in the 1960-1998 period. It deals with (i) the magnitude of total labor cost differences (ii) the developments in unit labor cost and labor produc...

Reducing Start-up costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labor Market.∗

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also leads, through a thick-market ex...