Aggregate and industry productivity estimates for Australia

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 216-226

  Parham, Dean ^a   Zheng, Simon ^a  

^a Productivity Commission   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745184191     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: 14678462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2006.00414.x     Document Type: Article

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