information and communications technologies (ICT). The impact of this development on a range of variables, including productivity … examine the effects of education, training and technology use on productivity and wages at the firm level. They make … in a firm to firm performance measures. They find that productivity is higher: the more intensively technology is used in …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

rate in Taiwan. Further, it examines whether outward FDI has contributed to productivity growth in Taiwan, and the …

Chinese industry, and its impacts on performance. We link ownership changes to productivity growth, and demonstrate that … are taken back into state ownership, and evaluating the productivity growth effects of this. Further, we highlight the … when evaluating the productivity effects of ownership change. …

The assessment process of productivity and cost of bored pile construction is dictated by unseen subsurface obstacles … equipment productivity and cost. Current research discusses the assessment of piling process productivity and cost using the … method, soil type and construction method. Five deterministic models have been designated to assess productivity, cycle time …

Change orders impact many areas of a construction project. However, the impacts that change orders have on labour … impact of change orders on labour efficiency. The input factors needed for the model are (1) total actual project hours, (2 …) total estimated change hours, (3) impact classification, and (4) timing of change. The model calculates the labour loss in …