Construction statisticslabour productivityproductivity measurementConstruction managementconstruction economicsAn accurate measure of the U.S. construction industry's productivity remains a consistently perplexing challenge. The thread of previous research has produced contradictory results, which contributes to the ...
The exercise by an Australian state agency of coercive powers against construction industry workers has been justified by reference to claimed gains in productivity and hence national welfare. Yet the literature suggests that a more cooperative approach to union—management relations would offer better op...
One must find the changes in labour productivity that go with likely changes in volume, capital accumulation, trends in material supplies, and alternate technologies.All these questions will get imprecise answers without good statistics on output, labour, capital, and materials, both unit prices and...
The construction industry has made an important contribution to absorbing surplus rural labors and easing the employment pressure of the society. According to the monitoring report of the National Bureau of Statistics, the total number of migrant workers at the end of 2021 reached 292.51 million, of...
The pandemic created an anomaly for statistics in the construction industry, but looking forward, the outlook is largely positive. After a tepid period, an upswing in construction is expected throughout 2022 as the U.S. economy recovers from the pandemic and new economic centers continue to devel...
productivity figures in NZ and explain the patterns over recent years of lsquo;poor performancersquo; in comparison with other industries.spannbsp; /spanAs such it will examine the nature of the NZ construction industry and analyse the historic statistics related to its labour productivity. This...
Fatal Construction Industry Statistics 1. Construction has the second most workplace deaths of all industries, behind truck drivers. [BLS] 2. Nearly 1 in 5 deaths among U.S. workers is in the construction industry. [BLS] 3. Fatalities in construction increased by 11% from 2021 to 2022. [...
Finally, each of the sectors is distinct in terms of the primary societal benefits from improved energy efficiencies. Fuel economy in transportation is essential to improving air quality and protecting against oil price volatility. Energy productivity in industry is essential to economic competitiveness ...
On March 18, Liu Aihua, press spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics, chief economist, and director of the National Economic Comprehensive Statistics Department, said at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council that China's manufacturing industry is currently...
Methodology Ongoing work on how IT productivity is measured is combined with statistics on construction industry workload cycles in Denmark, The UK and the US. These show the variations between these countries and the paper suggests the optimum cycles on which different types of system should be ...