type="main" xml:id="irel12072-abs-0001" <p>The effect of prevailing wage laws on the cost of public construction has been the subject of an ongoing public policy debate. We measure this effect by comparing the public/private construction cost differential for schools built before and after British...</p>

Opponents of the Federal Davis-Bacon Act contend that this law has racial bias, and that keeping African-Americans out of the construction industry was the original intent of the law. This paper addresses the latter issue by examining congressional records to unveil the original intentions...

While scholarly consensus is that construction absenteeism is a serious and widespread problem, aggregate US and Canadian data show construction absenteeism rates substantially below cross-industry averages. While construction absenteeism research focuses on workplace culture and norms,...

Stochastic frontier regression is used to examine the effect of introducing prevailing wage legislation on public school construction efficiency in British Columbia. Prior to the legislation, public school projects were from 16% to 19% smaller, in terms of square feet, than comparable private...

Some of the findings from a national survey of 3754 community nursing staff in England regarding their experience of and preparation for working with HIV infection and AIDS are reported. The current absence of confidence to deal with HIV infection is explained and suggestions made regarding the...