Australia’s Mining Productivity Decline: Implications for MFP Measurement

This paper investigates the mining sector’s poor productivity performance as measured by the growth accounting formula for multifactor productivity (MFP) index during the recent mining boom in Australia. We provide an alternative measure of productivity growth by estimating a translog variable cost...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zheng, S., Bloch, Harry
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer New York LLC 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41561