Estimates of union wage and productivity effects are derived using primary micro-level panel data for a sample of firms in the UK engineering industry. Union wage differentials of the order of 10% are suggested from the results, whereas union productivity impacts appear to be non-linear with ...
EMPLOYER SIZE, WAGES AND UNOBSERVED SKILLS: EVIDENCE FROM MOONLIGHTERS IN THE UK In this paper we examine the labour quality explanation of the employer size鈥搘age gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled wor... A Muravyev - 《Manchester School》 被引量: 15...
Architectural and Engineering Firms for Architectural design, engineering, construction administration, project management services. competitionline - 《Competitionline》 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management A multi-criteria approach to contractor selection A multi-criteria ap...
Financial considerations: E&C firms strive to drive growth from strategic divestitures, capital allocation strategies, and the growing role of private equity Industrial policies: E&C firms are likely to remain agile in the face of an evolving policy landscape ...
In the survey 40 per cent of the firms were either product or production oriented, 7 per cent of them classified themselves as sales oriented and only 53 per cent of the companies professed to be marketing oriented. Marketing orientation tends to be overstated, as the role of marketing is ...
development of international hydropower projects,such as design management,human resources management,information management,risk management,etc.,and proposes the structure mode of project construction,which has certain reference value for the engineering consulting firms to implement the strategy of "going ...
Building on advances at similar tunnels in China, the Dalian Bay Undersea Tunnel team had to solve numerous technical challenges and adapt to cold site conditions to complete the first cross-sea immersed tube tunnel in the northern reaches of the country. ...
Zero Paradox: A study of construction contractors showed more fatal accidents in firms with "goal zero" safety policies than in those without. Non-fatal accidents were similar. Risk Secrecy: "goal zero" commitments result in injury underreporting and hiding of incidents which prevents learning, part...
The paper traces the role of the consulting-engineering profession in the development of the home supply industry through the men who founded practices at that time leading to the development of today's British consulting engineering firms which serve the power industry of the world. The ...
Doctors later would find high levels of lead in the blood of some children in Flint. Flint families sued Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, accusing both firms of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to...