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Private sector unit labour costs in Australia will rise by 5% in 2005, a faster rate of growth than anywhere in the developed world, according to the OECD, while a leading investment bank says the recent four quarters of trend decline in labour productivity is Australia's worst efficiency setback in two decades.
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