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Acknowledgements
We thank Richard Fabling, Mario Di Maio, Dave Maré, seminar participants at The Treasury and participants at the 2006 Conference of the NZ Association of Economists for comments and discussions. We are grateful to Preeti for her capable assistance with data compilation. Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand in a secure environment designed to give effect to the confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act, 1975. The views, opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this document are strictly those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent and should not be reported as those of The Treasury or Statistics New Zealand.
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background and data
- 2.2 Dealing with missing data
- 2.3 Weighting
- 3 Summary statistics
- 3.2 Cohorts
- 3.3 Association between labour productivity and its components
- 4 Time-series properties and transition rates
- 4.2 Quartile transitions
- 5 Modelling
- 5.2 Results
- 6 Concluding discussion
- References
- Appendix