1-March-2016
English
Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
This Working Paper, by Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, John Van Reenen and Stefanie Wolter, studies the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and pay.
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21-February-2016
English
Productivity in Financial and Insurance Services
This note describes challenges inherent in estimating productivity for the finance insurance and superannuation sector.
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18-January-2016
English, PDF, 2,386kb
Promoting Productivity for Inclusive Growth in Latin America
After a period of relatively robust growth that has allowed tens of millions of poorer households to join the global middle class, growth in Latin America has slowed recently. To close the still large gaps in living standards in relation to advanced economies, the region needs to significantly raise productivity growth while making sure that everybody has the opportunity to benefit.
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14-December-2015
English
Policies for Productivity Growth
This paper reviews the micro forces that matter for aggregate productivity growth focusing on six issues: costs to reallocating labour and capital, the influence of firm ownership and political connections, informality, the allocation of talent across the economy, barriers to internal trade and the working of housing markets.
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11-December-2015
English
The Future of Productivity
This book addresses the rising productivity gap between the global frontier and other firms, and identifies a number of structural impediments constraining business start-ups, knowledge diffusion and resource allocation (such as barriers to up-scaling and relatively high rates of skill mismatch).
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1-December-2015
English
Efficiency of NSW public transport services
Commissioned by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), this study assesses the efficiency of public transport services and suggests maximum fares applicable.
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30-November-2015
English
Workplace Relations Framework Inquiry Report (Overview and Recommendations)
Wary of the role Fair Work laws can play to secure prosperity, the Australian Government seeks to ensure these are balanced and effective. Against this background, the Productivity Commission was tasked to assess the performance of the workplace relations framework, including the Fair Work Act 2009, focusing on key social and economic indicators important to the well-being, productivity and competitiveness of Australia and its people.
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27-November-2015
English
Experimental Estimates of Industry Level KLEMS Multifactor Productivity
ABS Cat. No. 5260.0.55.003 - Information Paper: Experimental Estimates of Industry Level KLEMS Multifactor Productivity This paper presents the first Australian Bureau of Statistics experimental estimates of industry level KLEMS multifactor productivity (MFP) for the 16 market sector industries. The purpose of these estimates is to facilitate more in–depth analysis of the determinants of growth at the industry level.
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24-November-2015
German
Die Produktivitätsschwäche der Industrielän-der: Erklärungsansätze und Handlungsbedarf
This paper, by, Michael Heise, Arne Holzhausen, Rolf Schneider, explains the productivity weakness of the industrialized countries.
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19-November-2015
English
Institutions to Promote Pro-Productivity Policies: Logic and Lessons
In order to promote productivity, public policies need to focus on improving incentives, capabilities and flexibility within an economy. A strong case exists for establishing public institutions that not only help governments identify the right policies, but that can also help them counter pressures against reform.