equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function … plays the role of the means through which the labour resource is substituted by capital services. A method for estimating of … capital services and the technological index due to known time series of the output Y, capital stock K and labour L is …

between high productivity growth industry sectors and low productivity growth industry sectors. …

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …

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 …

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance … impact most. The resulting fall in labour force participation would also need to be addressed. The Commission shows that …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the different levels of tax rates on the use of the labour force in a range of …

This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in … February 2005. This staff working paper is part of an ongoing labour market research program at the Productivity Commission to … examine developments in employment relationships and the implications of these developments for the labour force and the …