Estimates of total factor productivity in the meat processing industry in Queensland over the period 1968-69 to 1980-81 are provided, There was no overall improvement in productivity over this period, notwithstanding a decade of new investment during which the real value of the capital stock...

The Lau and Yotopoulos restricted profit function methodology for testing for differences in economic efficiency and its components of allocative and technical efficiency is applied to data from grazing properties in the High Rainfall Zone of New South Wales. Tests are made on the basis of...