Australia's surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average income (income per person in Australia). Annual average income growth accelerated from 1.4 per cent in the 1970s and 1980s to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. Faster productivity growth...

This paper finds that the rapid uptake of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia's strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity...