Lifting service sector productivity - which levers to pull?

Where do you think the greatest potential to lift service industry productivity lies – in a more open occupational licensing regime, through more customer-driven competition, or through greater technological innovation and uptake?

The Productivity Commission plans to explore two of these three areas in detail and is asking in an interim report released last week for guidance on which two.

Submissions close on 23 August 2013.

Focus of inquiry – what's in

The industries which the Productivity Commission has identified for examination are:

• wholesale trade
• retail trade
• transport, postal and warehousing
• information media and telecommunications
• finance and insurance