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Higher productivity increases wages. Technology plays an important part in raising productivity. We must temporarily reduce consumption to make investments that will increase productivity and support more consumption in the future. Article Sources. Investopedia requires writers to use primary sources to support their work.
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When business is booming, firms will fully utilise their capital and labour. Hence, measured productivity tends to be pro-cyclical as utilisation rates of inputs rise in upswings and fall in downswings. Many industries experience cycles in demand that affect capacity utilisation but industries with high levels of fixed capital, such as manufacturing, tend to be more exposed to the business cycle.
This means that annual productivity estimates are likely to under or overstate the underlying trend level of productivity depending on where the industry is in the business cycle. To assist users to interpret measured productivity, the ABS divides time series MFP into productivity cycles for the market sector.
The start and end points of the cycles correspond to points where the levels of capacity utilisation are likely to be comparable. Average productivity growth between these points is a more reliable measure of productivity growth over a given period than those based on different years in the cycle. Problems in both the accuracy of the raw data and in the methodologies applied generate measurement errors.
Improvements in data quality and methodology are a part of the ongoing function of the ABS, resulting in periodic revisions of the estimates of MFP. Two problems in measuring inputs that can introduce errors into the estimates of productivity are difficulties in measuring the volume of capital services, and lags between investment when it is counted as adding to the productive capital stock and when it is actually utilised in production.
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PC News May Improving Australia's health system: what we can do now. In Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS produces measures of output and inputs for different industries, sectors and the economy as a whole. Productivity is not measured directly but is calculated by dividing a measure of output by a measure of inputs. Output refers to a quantity of goods and services produced in a given time period. Output for an industry or sector is usually measured by gross value added GVA , which is the total value of goods and services produced less those goods and services used in the production process known as intermediate consumption.
Output for the whole economy can be calculated by summing GVA across industries. Suppose a person is employed for 40 hours a week in a toy factory. In a given week, the worker produces dolls. The productivity of the worker in that week is 3 dolls per hour. Suppose the factory produces a range of toys, including dolls, miniature cars, card games and board games. Most businesses produce output using a combination of labour and capital inputs.
MFP is calculated as a measure of output divided by a measure of combined inputs. Both the denominator and numerator are usually represented by indexes, which is a useful way of comparing changes in economic time series relative to a base period. The value of the index in the base period is usually set to equal Because of the use of indexes, MFP is usually analysed in terms of growth rates rather than levels.
Suppose that a factory uses a combination of labour and capital to produce dolls, board games and other toys. Suppose that year 1 is the base year when an output index and a combined input index for the toy factory are both set equal to In year 2, the output index increases to while the combined input index increases to
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