Australia's Productivity Growth Slump: Signs of Crisis, Adjustment or Both?

Visiting researcher paper

This paper by Dean Parham was released on 19 April 2012.

Preliminaries (PDF - 357 Kb)
- Cover, Copyright, Contents, Visiting Researcher papers and Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction and summary (PDF - 316 Kb)
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 What the paper does and says
Chapter 2 The big picture (PDF - 303 Kb)
- 2.1 Proximate explanations
- 2.2 Fuelling the input accumulation
- 2.3 Summary
Chapter 3 Industry contributions (PDF - 421 Kb)
- 3.1 Industry sources of input growth
- 3.2 A different reallocation of output
- 3.3 MFP implications
- 3.4 Complete industry contributions
- 3.5 Summary
Chapter 4 Deeper reasons: crisis or adjustment? (PDF - 840 Kb)
- 4.1 Industry profitability
- 4.2 Industry reviews
- 4.3 The 'usual suspects'
- 4.4 Crisis or adjustment?
- 4.5 Further research
Appendix A Calculating industry contributions (PDF - 294 Kb)
Appendix B Structural change between industries (PDF - 320 Kb)
References (PDF - 207 Kb)

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