Resource Movements and Labour Productivity, an Australian Illustration: 1994-95 to 1997-98

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments, Key Points

1 Introduction
1.1 Background and objectives
1.2 Major findings from the literature
1.3 The Business Longitudinal Survey
1.4 Structure of the paper

2 A decomposition framework
2.1 Decomposition methodology
2.2 How is the contribution of resource movements to the change in average productivity measured?
2.3 A taxonomy of firms

3 The BLS and the RR sample
3.1 The Business Longitudinal Survey
3.2 The RR sample
3.3 Calculating labour productivity

4 Resource movements and productivity change in Australia
4.1 Labour productivity growth - the RR sample and the economy
4.2 Average labour productivity in the RR sample - levels and growth
4.3 Decomposing productivity change
4.4 A taxonomy of continuing firms

5 Conclusions
5.1 Summary
5.2 Directions for future research

A Decomposition

B Adjustments to the CURF

C Weighted results

D Transition matrix

References