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dc.contributor.authorAllan, Cameron
dc.contributor.authorDungan, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorPeetz, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:24:21Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:24:21Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-11-03T07:05:08Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-1856
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27312
dc.description.abstractThe Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is a state agency established by the Howard government with coercive powers unprecedented in employment relations. A few months before the 2007 federal election, it released a consultant's report purporting to demonstrate that labour productivity had soared in the sector of the industry in which it had been exercising its coercive powers. However, re-analysis of the original data on building costs, which the report cited as its source, demonstrates no major savings or economic benefits and shows the alleged welfare gains to be based on discredited data.
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAssociation of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand
dc.publisher.placeNewcastle
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/airaanz/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename23rd Conference of the Association-of-Industrial-Relations-Academics-of-Australian-and-New-Zealand (AIRAANZ 2009)
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleJOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2009-02
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2009-02-06
dc.relation.ispartoflocationNewcastle, AUSTRALIA
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom61
dc.relation.ispartofpageto79
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofvolume52
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchIndustrial and employee relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode350504
dc.title‘Anomalies’, Damned ‘Anomalies’ and Statistics: Construction Industry Productivity in Australia
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE2 - Conferences (Non Refereed)
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human Resources
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 AIRAANZ. The attached file is posted here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher, for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted.
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorPeetz, David R.


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