Following a wave of dental school closures from 1986 to 2001 and a perceived shortage of dentists, three new dental schools were established between 1997 and 2003, and eight more are in various stages of planning and development to open over the next decade. Conditions are moving rapidly, and several institutions have stated intentions to open new dental schools since this analysis. This articl...

Data from the 2002 Supermarket Panel are used to estimate a supermarket production function with weekly gross margin as the output measure and store selling area and total labor hours as variable inputs. The model also includes productivity shifters describing format and service offerings, store ownership structure, unionization, and adoption of new information technologies and related business...

Health workforce indicators?1 Those should be easy. We just need to count the numbers entering from training institutions or through re-entry, the numbers working, and the numbers exiting. If we know where these people work, we have the distribution of health workers within a country, and if we also have information on their competencies, responsiveness and productivity, we can know about their...

In this paper, we discuss techniques for supporting enterprise applications for business services. These applications can be quite complex, requiring support for regional variations in business logic, multi-step workflows, and long term transactions. Furthermore, such applications must coordinate the efforts of a mobile workforce that is distributed around the world, and integrate with client-s...

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms’ ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find that workers older than 49 are not significantly less productive than prime age workers, whereas workers...

This paper formulates a non-linear integer programming model to solve a maintenance workforce sizing problem with a productivity improvement goal. This problem is modelled in a bi-objective framework that minimises the number of maintenance personnel while maximising their productivity levels. Inputs into the optimisation model include monthly and routine maintenance periods, volume of producti...

This paper presents evidence that the age structure of the workforce matters for productivity. At first glance, this is unsurprising because standard Mincerian wage regressions show that workers with more schooling and more experience receive higher wages. If workers earn their marginal product, then the wage differential described by the Mincer evidence is a measure of the productivity differe...

This paper reports on a study of factors affecting productivity among members of the construction workforce in Turkey. A survey of 82 construction firms in Turkey is undertaken using a questionnaire of 54 questions directed to managers, engineers, architects, and other technical staff. Using the results of the survey, economic and socio-psychological factors that affect labour performance are e...

Economists have long believed that investments in education, or “human capital,” are an important source of economic growth. Over the last 40 years output has grown about 3.5 percent a year and the productivity of labor has grown about 2.4 percent per year. The contribution of education to labor productivity growth is estimated to be between 13 and 30 percent of the total. Further, many people ...

Because of enhanced mobility and productivity, wireless local area networks (WLANs) are experiencing a period of substantial growth in the marketplace. When implemented correctly, WLANs provide secure, transparent access between Ethernet-wired networks and radio-equipped Mobile Units. Nortel Networks offers several security solutions to enhance the security of WLANs— enabling full site-to-site ...