In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first …. In particular, we show that a micro-founded union will never find it profitable to co- operate with the Government …

standard policy game between the government and a monopoly union. We stress the shortcomings of the traditional way used to … profitable to cooperate with the government, unless side-payments are considered. The study of this issue is however beyond the …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical … analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …

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. …

employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the …

services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster productivity growth accounted for over 90 per cent of the acceleration. „h The … capital shares in economywide income were stable throughout the 1990s. Concerns that productivity-enhancing factors have …