, we decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change. The results indicate that annual … productivity growth averaged 1.04 percent across all utilities and was largely attributable to efficiency gain, roughly equally … in efficiency, technology change, and productivity improvements …

and competitive pressures can improve Australia's productivity performance, by increasing incentives for firms to adopt …A feature of the recent global slowdown in productivity growth is that progress at the technological frontier has … for Australia. We exploit a novel dataset merging international microdata from OECD-Orbis with Australian microdata from …