The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative data on the population of New Zealand construction...

Construction is the world's largest and most challenging industry. Human resource today has a strategic role for productivity increase of any organization, and this makes it superior in the industrial competition, Productivity is one of the most important factors that affect overall performance...

The empirical relationships between labour wages, unemployment rate and the labour productivity index in New Zealand's construction sector (for the period of 1983–2017) were investigated. The Johansen cointegration test and vector error correction mechanism were used to determine the existence...

The construction industry plays a strategic role in developing countries like Zimbabwe. This research seeks to empirically determine the main factors affecting construction labour productivity in Zimbabwe. Questionnaires comprising of structured and unstructured questions were used to for data...

We use administrative data on the population of New Zealand construction firms from 2001-2012, along with linked data on their employees and working proprietors, to study the relationships among worker flows, entry, and firm productivity. We find that job churn is prevalent in construction, with...

The present study aims to identify critical factors (CFs) affecting construction labor productivity (CLP) from the perception of project managers compared to contractors’ viewpoint. By a comprehensive review of the previous studies, this study managed 45 CFs affecting labor productivity in the...