Productivity and the structure of employment
Staff research paper
This paper by Paula Barnes, Rick Johnson, Anthony Kulys and Scott Hook was released on 26 July 1999. The paper focuses on the relationship between multifactor productivity growth and the structure of employment. The objective is to examine whether multifactor productivity growth is associated with changes in key characteristics of employment that are the focus of community attention:
- skill - the impact on workers with lower educational attainment or in low-skilled occupations;
- age - the effects on younger and older workers;
- part-time and casual employment - changes in the incidence of these work arrangements; and
- earnings - the impact on the distribution of earnings.
The paper does not seek to establish causation. It only examines if there is any correlation between multifactor productivity growth and changes in the structure of employment. The paper builds on work published in the earlier Industry Commission research paper, Assessing Australia's Productivity Performance.
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Productivity and the Structure of Employment by chapters ( 893.4 KB)This Staff Research Paper by Paula Barnes, Rick Johnson, Anthony Kulys and Scott Hook, examines the association between productivity growth and the structure of employment in Australia.
The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences between high productivity growth industry sectors and low productivity growth industry sectors.
The paper is part of a stream of ongoing work at the Productivity Commission on microeconomic reform, productivity growth and employment.
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