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employment in the industrial sector, but this decline is more than counterbalanced by the rise of productivity, so that the … services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …
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services make to productivity improvements and living standards. Services account for more than three-quarters of national …
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Using a recently developed model which allows to separate a few well- established employment effects of product and … process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by …
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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. …
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The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...
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Australian manufacturing is a picture of diversity and contrasts. This is the main finding of this paper which examines trends in the Australian manufacturing sector over the last two decades. Manufacturing output has quadrupled since the mid-1950s. The fastest growing activities have been those...
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„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 …
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Skill and Australia’s Productivity Surge examines the changing demand for skills and the effect of increased skill on … productivity growth. It finds that Australia’s productivity surge post 1993-94 was mainly due to factors other than the increase in …
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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...
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stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to … on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …
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