Mechanical Contractors Association

Case Studies and Issues Relevant to the MCA Workforce

"Kansas and Prevailing Wage Legislation"Peter Philips, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Utah, February 20, 1998

"A Critique of "Comparison of Nonunion and Union Contractors Construction Fatalities" prepared by Charles Culver for the National Center for Construction Education and Research, June 1995. Published by the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO.

"Losing Ground: Lessons from the Repeal of Nine "Little Davis-Bacon" Acts," Peter Philips, Garth Mangum, Norm Waitzman, Anne Yeagle, Economics Department, University of Utah

"Best Practices for Labor Productivity," Dean Findley, Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA)

"Square Foot Construction Costs for Newly Constructed State and Local Schools, Office and Warehouses in Nine Southwestern and Intermountain States, 1992-1994," Peter Phillips, Professor, University of Utah Economics Department

"Kentucky's Prevailing Wage Laws, Its History, Purpose and Effect," Peter Philips, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Utah, October, 1999

"Building Trades Apprentice Training in West Virginia, A Comparison of Union and Non-Union Building Trades Programs in the 1990's," Sarah S. Etherton, Stephen L. Cook, and Robert V. Massey Jr., West Virginia University Extension Service, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, May, 2002

"Construction Apprenticeship and Training in Pennsylvania," David H. Bradley, Ph.D. and Stephen A. Herzenberg, Ph.D., Keystone Research Center, 2002

"The Effect of State Prevailing Wage Laws on Total Construction Costs, " Mark J. Prus, Department of Economics, SUNY, Cortland, NY, January, 1996

"Do Higher Wages Raise Labor Costs? Why Workforce Skills - Not Wages - Have Greatest Cost Impact " Cockshaw's Construction Labor News + Opinion, May, 2001

"A Preliminary Report on Associated Builders and Contractors Apprenticeship Training: Flawed and Failing Initiatives," A Study by the Building and Construction Trades Department AFL-CIO

"The Adverse Economic Impact from Repeal of the Prevailing Wage Law in Missouri" by M. Kelsay, R. Wray and K. Pinkham, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2004

"Analysis of Regression and Surveys in Ohio LSC Report on S.B. 102 on Claimed Cost Savings from Exempting School Construction from Prevailing Wage Requirements" Herbert J. Weisberg, Ohio State University, July 8, 2002

"Comparison of Public School Construction Costs In Three Midwestern States that Have Changed Their Prevailing Wage Laws in the 1990's" Peter Philips, University of Utah Economics Department, February 2001

"Prevailing Wage Regulations and School Constructions Costs: Evidence From British Columbia" Peter Philips and Cihan Bilginsoy. Journal of Education Finance, Winter 2000

"Prevailing Wage Laws and School Construction Costs" Mark J. Prus, State University of New York, Cortland, N.Y., January 1999

"Analysis of Construction Industry Apprenticeship Programs in Indiana" by Jeff Vincent, Indiana University Institute for the Study of Labor in Society, April, 2004