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title: Industry productivity and the Australia-New Zealand income gap
description: Differences in productivity explain much of the growing income gap between Australia and New Zealand. Good policy responses rely on understanding the sources of these differences. 
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# [Industry productivity and the Australia-New Zealand income gap](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/industry-productivity-and-the-australia-new-zealand-income-gap)

 Written by [The NZIER Team](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/author/the-nzier-team) | September 18, 2011

Differences in productivity explain much of the growing income gap between Australia and New Zealand. Good policy responses rely on understanding the sources of these differences. 

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