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Trends in productivity improvement in the US construction industry

Arditi, David; Mochtar, Krishna - In: Construction Management and Economics 18 (2000) 1, pp. 15-27

Surveys of the top 400 US contractors were conducted in 1979, 1983 and 1993 to identify the areas with potential for productivity improvement in the construction industry. The trends in the findings of these surveys are observed and interpreted. The results indicate that cost control,...

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Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale; Ho, Mun; Samuels, Jon; Stiroh, Kevin - In: Economic Systems Research 19 (2007) 3, pp. 229-252

This paper analyzes the industry origins of the American growth resurgence by examining output, input, and productivity growth of 85 component industries for the period 1960 to 2005. We use this detailed industry data to examine trends in particular industry groups such as those that produce...

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Economic incentive framework for sustainable energy use in US residential construction

Grosskopf, K. R.; Kibert, Charles - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 8, pp. 839-846

Searching for new ways to be competitive in an increasingly deregulated market, energy suppliers worldwide have turned to energy conservation measures (ECMs) to avoid costly generation expansion, to build relationships with consumers and to comply with new international emissions standards. To...

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Spillovers, Linkages and Technical Change

Wolff, Edward - In: Economic Systems Research 9 (1997) 1, pp. 9-23

Using US input-output data for the period 1958-87, I find strong evidence that industry total factor productivity (TFP) growth is significantly related to the TFP performance of the supplying sectors, with an elasticity of almost 60%. R&D intensity is also found to be a significant determinant...

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Social capital, economic growth and regional development

Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040

000 individuals living in 40 communities, grouped into nine regions, in the USA. These data show remarkable diversity of social …

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Urban-Rural Migration in the USA: An Analysis of Residential Satisfaction

Barcus, Holly - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 6, pp. 643-657

Barcus H. R. (2004) Urban-rural migration in the USA: an analysis of residential satisfaction, Regional Studies38, 643 …-657. The past 30 years have witnessed three major shifts in the direction of migration flows in the USA. During the 1970s and … 1991 American Housing Survey. Data for the USA are assessed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit models …

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US manufacturing and vertical/horizontal intra-industry trade: examining the smooth adjustment hypothesis

White, Roger; Chen, Cheng - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 1-20

hypothesis (SAH). To our knowledge, this is the first examination of the SAH for the USA. The results of our empirical analysis …

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The extensive margin of intrafirm trade

Gao, Xiang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 213-232

The firm-level approach to intra-industry trade reveals that the variation in the number of exporters or exported varieties (extensive margin) accounts for a greater share of the changes in aggregate trade than the variation in the average exports per firm variety (intensive margin). This paper...

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An analysis of Indiaâ€™s bilateral intra-industry trade in agricultural products

Varma, Poornima - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 83-95

showed that the agricultural trade between India and its two major trading partners, the USA and European Union, was mainly …

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Captive offshoring by US multinationals: measuring the domestic employment impacts of vertical FDI

Mullen, J.K.; Williams, Martin - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 21-34

The complex nature of â€˜international outsourcingâ€™ makes it difficult to quantify its employment and broader impacts on national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of â€˜offshoringâ€™ by US firms is scant, rendering analyses of its economic impacts as...

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