New Zealand’s Productivity Growth: Component and Industry Decompositions
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New Zealand Productivity Commission
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This note applies Diewert (2014a)’s productivity growth decomposition method to New Zealand data. This approach decomposes aggregate labour productivity growth into: industry labour productivity growth, changes in industry labour input shares and changes in industry real output prices. Similarly, aggregate MFP growth is decomposed into: industry MFP growth, changes in industry input shares, changes in industry real output prices and changes in industry reciprocal input prices. Consistent with Meehan (2014), industry labour productivity growth was a much larger component of aggregate labour productivity growth in New Zealand over the 1978-2011 period than changes in labour input shares.Description
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New Zealand Productivity Commission Working Paper 2015/2. Te Kōmihana o Whai Hua o Aotearoa. ISBN: 978-0-478-44016-4 (online only
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