The growth and composition of the Australian work force, 1910-1911 to 1960-1961
Abstract
The growing interest since World War II in economic growth has
stimulated a great deal of work both in compiling statistical series
of the major economic aggregates , such as output , labour and capital ,
and in the use of these series to chart and describe the main features
of economic change . Research is now proceeding in a number of countries
in an attempt to provide long- run series of these aggregates , although
by far t he most advanced country in this respect is the U.S .A. In
Australia , N.G. Butlin has compiled estimates of product and investment
covering the years 1861 to 1938- 39 and there are official figures from
1938- 39 to the present day .