Microeconomic Reform and Productivity Growth

Contents

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations, Definition of productivity measures

PART A INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction
Gary Banks

PART B CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES

2 Construction and use of measures to guide microeconomic reform
Catherine Morrison

3 The effects of microeconomic reforms on product and factor markets
John Freebairn

4 A growth theory perspective on the effects of microeconomic reform
John Quiggin

PART C INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

5 Explaining the pick-up in Australian productivity performance
Steve Dowrick

6 Microeconomic reform: the New Zealand experience
Brian Easton

PART D THE AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE

7 A general review of productivity analyses in Australia
Peter Dawkins and Mark Rogers

8 Trade liberalisation and manufacturing industry productivity growth
Satish Chand, Paulene McCalman and Paul Gretton

9 Economic policy issues of reform in the utilities and services industries
Peter Forsyth

10 The effects of microeconomic reform in telecommunications
Robert Albon

11 Effects of the labour market on microeconomic reform in Australia
Judith Sloan

12 Microeconomic reform and displaced workers — an introduction
Jeff Borland

PART E SUMMING UP

13 A summing up
R. G. Gregory

PART F APPENDIX

A Workshop Participants