Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Contents

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Preface, Abbreviations and explanations, Key messages

Overview
Contributions to growth in average income
Productivity growth and the distribution of income gains to labour and capital
Other dimensions of income distribution
Concluding remarks

1 The context for this study
1.1 Objectives and scope of the paper
1.2 A brief review of the nature of other studies

2 Recent trends in living standards
2.1 Approaches to monitoring living standards
2.2 A review of available indicators
2.3 Assessment

3 Contributions to improvements in average income
3.1 Phases of growth
3.2 Contributions to growth in average incomes
3.3 Assessment

4 Productivity and the distribution of labour and capital income
4.1 Factor income shares
4.2 Productivity and rates of pay and profit
4.3 The links between wages, productivity and employment
4.4 An industry perspective
4.5 Assessment

5 Some remaining issues
5.1 Trends in earnings distribution
5.2 Trends in distribution of capital income
5.3 The government sector
5.4 Trends in rural and urban distribution
5.5 Assessment

A Trends in selected indicators of living standards
A.1 Income
A.2 Wealth
A.3 Consumption
A.4 Working hours
A.5 Housing
A.6 Health
A.7 Education
A.8 Environment

B Statistical decomposition of growth in average income
B.1 Phases of growth
B.2 The decomposition methodology
B.3 Implementation of the decomposition

C Sectoral productivity growth and its distribution
C.1 Sectoral productivity estimates
C.2 Distribution of factor income
C.3 Productivity, wages, profits and prices

D Selected distributional trends
D.1 Trends in earnings distribution
D.2 Trends in distribution of capital income
D.3 The government sector
D.4 Distribution between rural and urban Australia

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