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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Bob Buckle, Dimitri Margaritis, Dean Parham, John Gibson, Veronica Jacobson, Adrienne Quach, Dave Maré, Jason Timmons, Dean Hyslop, participants at a presentation given in Treasury’s Economic Growth Seminar Series and to our colleagues in the Policy Coordination and Development Section for their contributions to this paper. We would also like to thank Statistics New Zealand for data access and their advice throughout this project.
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Data
- Disclaimer
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Firm dynamics and productivity
- 2.3 Descriptive statistics
- 3 Labour productivity accounting
- 4 Contribution of firm dynamics to labour productivity growth
- 4.1 Benchmark results (continued)
- 4.2 Disaggregated industry results
- 4.3 Robustness testing
- 5 Reallocation
- 6 Preliminary life cycle dynamics
- 7 Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Appendix 1 – Firm productivity database
- Appendix 2 – Additional decompositions