The Productivity Commission has released two companion reports, benchmarking business regulation across jurisdictions: one on the Quantity and Quality of Regulation, the other on the Cost of Business Registrations.This is the second report and provides estimates of compliance costs for business...

The Productivity Commission has released two companion reports, benchmarking business regulation across jurisdictions: one on the Quantity and Quality of Regulation, the other on the Cost of Business Registrations.This is the first report and provides indicators of the stock and flow of...

The market for retail tenancies involves dynamic and complex interactions of small and large businesses participating in the market as retail tenants and landlords. Depending on the format and the range of facilities offered, retail tenancies can be broadly divided into shopping strips (or high...

In 2008-09, Australian Government budgetary outlays, tax concessions and import tariffs provided Australian industry with $17.2 billion in assistance in gross terms, according to the latest annual review by the Productivity Commission. After allowing for the cost impost of import tariffs on...

This Productivity Commission inquiry report was released on 12 October 2012. Default superannuation arrangements for those employees who derive their default superannuation product in accordance with modern awards have provided market stability, and net returns of default funds have generally...

The Productivity Commission's latest report, Annual Review of Regulatory Burdens on Business: Social and Economic Infrastructure Services Sector - identifies ways to reduce the regulatory burdens on businesses in aged care, health, child care, education, information media and telecommunications,...

The Productivity Commission is required to report annually on industry assistance and its effects on the economy. Trade & Assistance Review 2007-08 contains the Commission's latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry. It also examines recent developments in...

Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, together with Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks, launched the fourth edition of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage Report on 2 July in Darwin. Following the launch, Gary Banks briefed heads of...

The Productivity Commission has released an update on the financial performance of 85 Australian, State and Territory Government trading enterprises (GTEs). The report also examines the capital structures of GTEs and capital withdrawal by State and Territory governments. The 85 GTEs monitored in...

The commission research paper quot;The Role of Non-Traditional Work in the Australian Labour Marketquot; was released on 25 May 2006.There is continuing debate in Australia about the effects of labour market changes on the wellbeing of workers and their families. One such change has been the...