Productivity Technology and Structural Change in Japan
Author : Leslie Stein
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN :
Author : Leslie Stein
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309047803
The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United States and Japan, an evaluation of future impacts of eroding U.S. technological preeminence, an analysis of the changing nature of technology-based global competition, and a discussion of policy options for the United States.
Author : Kazushi Ōkawa
Publisher :
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9784130470629
The authors view economic development as an extended process, and their model is formulated in terms of a dualistic structure, which they see as characterizing developing economies: the traditional coexisting with the modern. Their analysis attempts to quantify this structure, and to examine how changes in the balance between tradition and modernity affect technological diffusion, factor prices, the labor market, and the sequence of events in economic growth.
Author : Seymour Broadbridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136917977
First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Koji Nomura
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811964947
Energy costs in the economy amount to only a few percent of gross domestic product, but their importance to economic growth is much greater than their apparent number. Energy is used in almost all production and consumption activities, and energy price changes induce significant spillover effects throughout the economic system. More importantly, stable and affordable access to energy is a critical factor in determining the rate of capital accumulation in a domestic economy and, hence, labor productivity growth. The expansion of production per hour worked is achieved by using more and higher quality capital, which requires more energy to operate. This book aims to provide robust observational facts on energy productivity improvement (EPI) and to analyze the mechanisms of EPI achieved in Japan’s economic growth from 1955 to 2019. Linking the productivity account with energy statistics enables us to attempt not only to develop a better indicator of energy productivity but also to evaluate the EPI with other significant changes in the production process, such as capital productivity, labor productivity, and even the overall efficiency measured in terms of total factor productivity. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand the role of energy throughout the economy and for economic planners seeking to ensure the efficient use of energy now and into the future.
Author : Jorge M. Katz
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In the last ten to fifteen years, profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open. Policymakers expected that these changes would speed up growth. This book is part of a multi-year project to determine whether these expectation have been fulfilled. Focusing on technological change, the impact of the reforms on the process of innovation is examined. It notes that the development process is proving to be highly heterogenous across industries, regions and firms and can be described as strongly inequitable. This differentiation that has emerged has implications for job creation, trade balance, and the role of small and medium sized firms. This ultimately suggests, amongst other things, the need for policies to better spread the use of new technologies.
Author : Chihiro Watanabe
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
The Japanese economy has achieved remarkable growth since the end of World War II, outpacing that of other advanced industrial nations. The most significant contribution to this growth has been the level of investment in technology. In contrast to other advanced economies, this investment has been funded primarily by private industry; the level of R & D investment by the Japanese government is the lowest among the advanced countries.
Author : Mariana Colacelli
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498317472
Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan’s modest productivity growth. Results show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector. SMEs, on average, exhibit lower productivity growth than non-SMEs in Japan, with smaller and older SMEs showing particularly low productivity growth. Estimates suggest that boosting productivity growth in all of the worst-performing SMEs could improve overall productivity growth by up to 1.8 percentage points. The SME credit guarantee system, SME financing constraints, demographic factors, and lack of intangible capital investment are discussed as contributors to the slow productivity growth of Japan’s small and old SMEs.
Author : A. Link
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136458085
This volume reviews the literature on productivity growth and relates it to the production function approach to technological change.
Author : F. Gerard Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134081170
This volume presents an up-to-date study of the current state and future of Japanese economic growth, arguing that an information and communications technology revolution could revive Japanese economic growth.