„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 …

The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia’s productivity … Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms concludes that the stronger growth in the use of ICT in the second half … of the 1990s added up to 1/2 a percentage point in the acceleration in annual labour productivity growth, principally as …

This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …