A recent Australian Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper has estimated a 25 % decline in value added total … factor productivity in Australian coal mining over the period 2000/2001–2006/2007. The decline coincides with a period of … estimated decline has motivated our investigation of productivity in Australian coal mining, its financial implications and its …

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

The purpose of this report is to uncover the factors behind what has been a very strong productivity performance from … substantial impact on productivity growth in the coal mining industry in Canada. The real price of coal increased sharply in the … the average productivity of the overall industry. However, since the 1970s, the real price of coal has fallen steadily …

The severe productivity slowdown in coal mining in the 1970s has been widely attributed to the Coal Mine Health and … skyrocketed. New pollution controls and the oil crisis caused structural shifts in the demand for coal, impinging on productivity …. This econometric study documents the salience of social determinants of the productivity slowdown controlling for these …

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the evolution of productivity in the natural resources … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … labour productivity and total factor productivity since 1961. …

international and cost-driven perspective. On the supply side, this has meant an increased focus on mining productivity. By … consulting recent research, this comment reviews the sources of productivity growth in the coal industry and discusses the …

, especially in the case of union voice. Union voice is also associated with greater workplace conflict and poorer productivity …