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Productivity Growth in Japan and the United States /

Emerging from the ruins of the Second World War, the Japanese economy has grown at double-digit rate throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, and, when the oil crisis of the 1970s slowed growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth r...

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Otros Autores: Berndt, Ernst R. (Contribuidor), Darrough, Masako (Contribuidor), Dean, Edwin (Contribuidor), Diewert, W. Erwin (Contribuidor), Fuss, Melvyn (Contribuidor), Griliches, Zvi (Contribuidor), Hayashi, Fumio (Contribuidor), Hulten, Charles R. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Imamura, Hajime (Contribuidor), Jorgenson, Dale W. (Contribuidor), Kikutani, Tatsuya (Contribuidor), Kuroda, Masahiro (Contribuidor), Lam, Alice C. (Contribuidor), Mairesse, Jacques (Contribuidor), Mori, Shunseke (Contribuidor), Morrison, Catherine (Contribuidor), Nadiri, M. Ishaq (Contribuidor), Neef, Arthur (Contribuidor), Norsworthy, J. R. (Contribuidor), Prucha, Ingmar R. (Contribuidor), Sakuramoto, Hikaru (Contribuidor), Sawa, Takamitsu (Contribuidor), Tachibanaki, Toshiaki (Contribuidor), Tan, Hong W. (Contribuidor), Waverman, Leonard (Contribuidor), Wood, David O. (Contribuidor), Yoshioka, Kanji (Contribuidor), Zabala, Craig A. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 53
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Contents
  • Prefatory Note
  • Introduction
  • 1. Productivity and International Competitiveness in Japan and the United States, 1960-1985
  • 2. Bilateral Models of Production for Japanese and U. S. Industries
  • 3. Productivity Growth in the Motor Vehicle Industry, 1970- 1984: A Comparison of Canada, Japan, and the United States
  • 4. Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in the Electrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan
  • 5. Decisions of Firms and Productivity Growth with Fixed Input Constraints: An Empirical Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing
  • 6. Energy Price Shocks and Productivity Growth in the Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Industries
  • 7. Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States
  • 8. Alternative Measures of Capital Inputs in Japanese Manufacturing
  • 9. The Taxation of Income from Capital in Japan: Historical Perspectives and Policy Simulations
  • 10. Taxes and Corporate Investment in Japanese Manufacturing
  • 11. R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U. S. Manufacturing Firms
  • 12. Compositional Change of Heterogeneous Labor Input and Economic Growth in Japan
  • 13. Technical Change and Human Capital Acquisition in the U.S. and Japanese Labor Markets
  • 14. Labor Disputes and Productivity in Japan and the United States
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index