Much research in the area of construction productivity focussed on the factors affecting labour. However, these studies tend to look at the factors in isolation and thus were inadequate in the recommendations for productivity improvements. This is because labour productivity is a complex and multifaceted issue. Given the recent industrial initiatives of Rethinking Construction and Respect for P...

A by now large literature in regional economics has greatly improved our understanding of the determinants of the observed spatial disparities in productivity. However, this literature neglects what seems to be a robust and persistent fact accompanying regional productivity differences: high productivity regions also have lower unemployment than low productivity regions. In this paper, we set o...

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with a recognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted that associations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average level of job satisfaction. In a study of 42 manufacturing companies, subsequent productivity was significantly correlated in controlled analyses ...

Organisations continue to be disappointed at the difference that ICT has made to knowledge worker productivity. This paper reports an exploratory study of the extent to which emerging mobile and wireless ICT can support the mobile nature of the knowledge worker’s job, including the impact that these technologies can have on working practices, collaboration processes, knowledge worker performanc...

This study at a major financial services corporation sought to investigate the association of arthritis with on-the-job productivity, also termed "presenteeism." Using a modified version of the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) incorporated into a Health Risk Appraisal (HRA), 17,685 employees responded to the survey in 2002. Of the 16,651 respondents meeting inclusion criteria, 2,469 (14.8%)...

Shimer (2005) argues that, in a reasonably calibrated Mortensen and Pissarides matching model, shocks to average labor productivity can account for only a small portion of the ‡uctuations in unemployment and vacancies. In this paper, I argue that, if vintage speci…c shocks rather than aggregate productivity shocks are the driving force of ‡uctuations, the model does a better job to account for ...

The Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) was developed by Lerner and colleagues (Lerner et al 2001). It is one of the most commonly used questionnaires to evaluate at-work disability and productivity loss. It contains 25 items arranged under four subscales addressing four dimensions of job demands namely: time demands, physical demands, mental/interpersonal demands, and output demands. The t...

Large, epidemiologic survey studies have established that migraine headaches affect approximately 6% of men and 18% of women in the United States and that the condition peaks during the prime working years (25 to 55 years of age). The consequent economic burden experienced by employers is substantial. The majority of this economic burden is realized by employers in terms of lost productivity, a...

To achieve faculty status, graduating doctoral students have to substantially outperform their peers, given the competitive nature of the academic job market. In an ideal, meritocratic world, factors such as prestige of degree-granting university ought not to play a substantial role. However, it has recently been reported that top-ranked universities produced about 2–6 times more faculty than d...

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS ON THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN PRODUCTIVITY AND REALLOCATION DYNAMICS Helena Schweiger, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor John C. Haltiwanger Department of Economics Recent empirical work has shown that the success of an economy depends largely on how successful it is in allocating inputs and outputs across businesses efficiently with m...