In this staff working paper, Sid Shanks and Simon Zheng undertake a series of modelling exercises that took advantage of the additional available data to explore the effects of research and development on Australian productivity. A major message from the analysis is that, at least for the time being, empirical estimates of the effects of...

The Australian Government has asked the Commission to examine the impacts of migration and population growth on Australia’s productivity and economic growth. The Commission has been requested to report on: the nature of international migration flows the impact of migration, particularly skilled migration, on the labour force, occupations, industries and regions the effects of migration...

This report contains the commission’s latest quantitative estimates of Australian government budgetary assistance to industry. It also discusses recent developments in tariff, budgetary and other assistance in a range of sectors of the economy over the past year, and some recent international policy developments affecting Australia‘s trade.

This paper presents the results of research undertaken in the Productivity Commission’s Environment and Resource Economics Branch during 2005. It is part of a larger suite of water policy research conducted by the Commission, including modelling of regional economic impacts of changes in water trade within the southern Murray–Darling Basin.

In this consultancy report for the PC, Erwin Diewert and Denis Lawrence of Meyrick and Associates identify and implement improvements in practical welfare measurement beyond the conventional average income or GDP per capita measure, and gauge the welfare contributions of productivity and the terms of trade.