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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor);  … - 2006
Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165
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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2005
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287790
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High-school dropouts and transitory labor market shocks : the case of the spanish housing boom
Aparicio, Ainhoa - 2010
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810536
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House prices and employment reallocation : international evidence
Bover, Olympia (contributor); Jimeno, Juan F. (contributor) - 2007
Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578882
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575163
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Das Entsendegesetz : Sündenfall oder Lösung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?
Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird dazu zunächst ein Blick auf die gegenwärtige Krise der deutschen Bauwirtschaft und …
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High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions
Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna - 2017
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border...
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The re-building effect of hurricanes : evidence from employment in the US construction industry
Strobl, Eric (contributor); Walsh, Frank A. (contributor) - 2008
We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...
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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?
Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015
results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289228
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The productivity of working hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
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