On 13 July 1998 the Treasurer referred the current and alternative funding methodologies for nursing home subsidy rates … to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within six months. The Aged Care Structural Reform Package …, announced in the August 1996 Budget, included a process of ‘coalescence’, under which the different nursing home subsidy rates …

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical …

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market … five years since the beginning of Economic reforms, the new Labor Law was passed in July 2003. This is not the only … weakness of the labor market reform; more importantly is that the new law did not actually bring any significant changes that …

profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …