This paper investigates the mining industry's poor productivity performance as measured by the conventional multifactor productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We derive a relationship between the measured and 'true' MFP growth that separates the effects of returns...

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 Ramp;D on Australian productivity.However, despite the advances in data and methods, our research was unable to find a consistent robust...