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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"labour productivity"”.
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Factors Affecting Maintenance Labour Productivity in the Building Industry
… research explored ways for improving maintenance labour productivity and reducing maintenance costs. This can be achieved through reducing the number of maintenance activities and by improving the productivity of labour carrying out repair and maintenance tasks.<br/><br/>The research established …
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Reframing Construction Labour Productivity in a Colonisation Context: The West Bank as an Example
… under-researched topic of defining construction labour productivity and the factors impacting it in the context of a small, volatile and dependent economy of the West Bank. The aim is to identify the impact of particular social, economic and political constraints on structural and agency factors …
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Trade unions and productivity:the impact of union presence on labour productivity in Korean manufacturing
… empirical relationship between trade unions and productivity in the Korean auto and cement manufacturing industries, during the 1980s. It challenges the tenets of the existing debate by stressing the contingent nature of this relationship. In particular this thesis pinpoints inadequacies of …
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An evaluation of the contextual factors that affect labour productivity in the South African Construction Industry
Poor labour productivity is an endemic global problem in the construction industry. In the past two decades, it has been observed over the different sectors of the construction industry that the labour productivity expended on projects has reported a decline, particularly in the building and civil …
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Analysing the impact of wage rate and inflation on labour productivity among selected early inflation-targeting countries and emerging market economies
… relationship between increased wage rate and labour productivity, which then increases the inflationary pressure in a case of IT EMEs as compared to early IT countries. Theories based on prior experiences around the world have led to generalisations of some monetary policies that ignore …
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Long run determination of inflation in South Africa
… determinants of inflation. By separating unit labour costs in nominal wages and labour productivity in an extension of the work by Fedderke and Schaling (2005), the labour productivity effect is shown to impact prices negatively and nominal wages positively. In addition, the implicit assumption …
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High Performance Work Systems and Firm Performance: The Moderator Role of Industry and Organizational Characteristics
… of High Performance Works Systems (HPWS) on firm labour productivity and innovation. Considerable studies have proved that investment in HPWS is associated with superior organizational performance (Huselid, 1995; Authur, 1994; Delery and Doty, 1996; Guthrie, 2001). However, there is still no …
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An investigation into the influence of buildability factors on productivity of <em>in situ</em> reinforced concrete construction
Construction productivity is one of the most frequently researched topics due to its importance to the viability of the industry. It is regarded as a true reflection of the efficiency and economic success of the operations.Despite the plethora of research into construction productivity reported …
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ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΤΙΚΟΙ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ. (ΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ-ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΗ...
… FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE GREEKINDUSTRY. THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY, WHICH HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED WERE: A) TO CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE VARIOUS CAUSAL FACTORS, B) TO DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY …
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Institutional and macroeconomic policy dynamics in transition economies
… term fluctuations in output, employment and labour productivity in South Africa are also investigated. The empirical evidence of negative correlation between employment and labour productivity contradicts the hypothesis of standard real business cycle theory. A model with monopolistic …
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Three Essays on Migration Economics
… on the effect of immigrants on aggregate labour productivity in the UK. I exploit variation on past settlement of natives across industries and regions to estimate the effect of immigrants on labour productivity. My estimates show that increasing the relative supply of immigrant labour has …
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The effect of trade liberalisation and foreign direct investment in Mexico
… determinants of GDP are capital accumulation, labour productivity and FDI. Other findings confirm that exports, differences in relative wages and currency depreciation are explicative of FDI. Exports are highly dependent on the world economy and exchange rate fluctuations. Labour productivity …
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Vision-Based Construction Worker Task Productivity Monitoring
… and further behind the manufacturing sector when productivity is considered. This is due to internal factors that take place on-site. Almost all of them are directly related to the way that productivity is monitored. Current practices for monitoring labour productivity are labour intensive, time - …
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Evaluating the impact of preferential markets on Eswatini SME economy
… on Eswatini SME economies (measured through labour productivity (LP), as well as the perception from SMEs on these markets) remain unknown. Studies conducted in various continents give conflicting findings on the benefit realised by SMEs exporting to PTAs. In analysing the economic effect of …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… the effects of natural disasters on firm productivity. The second study investigates how air pollution policies impact labour productivity. The third study focuses on business responses to environmental compliance requirements and how these strategies affect firm innovation. Taken …
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Climate risks, environmental regulations, and corporate environmental management
… the effects of natural disasters on firm productivity. The second study investigates how air pollution policies impact labour productivity. The third study focuses on business responses to environmental compliance requirements and how these strategies affect firm innovation. Taken …
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ΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ
… AN APPROPRIATE MEASURE FOR EVALUATING THE TOTAL PRODUCTIVITY, INCLUDING MATERIALS ENERGY AND SERVICES IN SECTORS OF THE GREEK INDUSTRY, B) THE SIMULTANEOUS EVALUATION OF THE PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITIES OF ALL PRODUCTION FACTORS AND THEIR RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE TOTAL PRODUCTIV C) THE APPLICATION …
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The Trade of Agricultural Horses in Late Medieval England
… of the medieval English economy, increasing labour productivity in farming and the efficiency of overland transport, but the infrastructures through which these animals were produced and distributed is poorly understood. This thesis is the first study that addresses this significant gap in …
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