The Productivity Commission released a Staff Working Paper ‘Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?’ (by Ben Dolman, Dean Parham and Simon Zheng) in March 2007. The paper considers whether it is feasible for Australia to match the US level of productivity. While other countries have...

The paper considers whether it is feasible for Australia to match the US level of productivity. While other countries have caught up with - and even surpassed - US productivity, Australia's catch-up has been comparatively modest and patchy. International comparisons of productivity are useful,...

The objective of this study was to undertake a series of modelling exercises that took advantage of the additional available data to explore the effects of R&D on Australian productivity. However, despite the advances in data and methods, our research was unable to find a consistent robust...