New Zealand Association of Economists conference 2010

Uncovering industry drivers of New Zealand's labour productivity growth

Authors

Nicholas Warmke, Adam Tipper, Lizette van Heerden and Toby Hunter

Abstract

This paper highlights the industry level drivers of aggregate labour productivity growth in New Zealand. We show how
the various trends in labour productivity growth have been influenced by capital deepening and multifactor productivity
across industries, and how each industry has contributed to the measured sector’s labour productivity growth.

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