1-June-2012
English
Australia's Productivity Performance and Real Incomes
This article reviews the evidence on Australia’s productivity performance and discusses the implications for income growth and inflation.
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1-March-2012
English
Productivity in Electricity, Gas and Water: Measurement and Interpretation
This staff working paper examines productivity trends in the Australian utilities industry and highlights some significant issues relating to the measurement and interpretation of changes in measured productivity over time.
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31-August-2011
English
Australia's Urban Water Sector Inquiry Report (Overview)
Ensuring long term water security requires effective arrangements that encourage timely investment in diversified water supplies and improve the efficiency of water use. In view of the above, this report serves to assist the Council of Australian Governments to advance urban water reforms in Australia by identifying pathways to achieve improved resource efficiency through reforms in arrangements that govern the urban water sector.
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1-July-2011
English
Multifactor Productivity Growth Cycles at the Industry
This working paper examines multifactor productivity growth cycles at the industry level in Australia, and finds considerable variation in industry-specific cycles across industries and the market sector.
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21-July-2010
English
Review of the Productivity Performance of State Owned Corporations
With the aim of reviewing the productivity of selected State-Owned Corporations (SOC) this study quantifies the change in the SOCs’ total factor productivity (TFP) performance over time and compares this performance to that of peer organisations. It also identifies factors that may have affected the SOCs’ productivity performance over this time.
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1-September-2009
English
Australia's Productivity Performance
This report presents Australia’s productivity growth over the past 20 years; examines the adequacy of productivity growth measures; reviews past contributions made by microeconomic reforms, and key future reforms and suggests measures to lift Australia’s productivity growth rate again.
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3-August-2009
English
Raising The Level of Productivity Growth In The Australian Economy
With a view to identifying effective policies to lift productivity in Australia, this paper qualitatively describes the concept of productivity; how productivity has evolved over the last decades in Australia; and the major factors influencing productivity growth.
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21-March-2009
English
Investments in Intangible Assets and Australia's Productivity Growth
Investment in capital is important for economic growth, is a principle that holds both for physical and 'intangible' assets. Against this background, the authors of this study analyse whether the composition of investment (including intangibles) has changed over time; and whether excluding intangible investment would result in a distorted view of the dynamic changes in economic growth and productivity?
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1-November-2008
English
Productivity in the Mining Industry: Measurement and Interpretation
This staff working paper examines the productivity of the Australian mining sector and highlights some significant issues relating to the measurement and interpretation of productivity trends within the sector.