Download or read book Recent Productivity Growth in Japanese and U S Manufacturing written by John Norsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the United States conducted by the authors at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Japan was chosen for the comparison because the growth of productivity there has been extraordinary despite a less than favorable economic environment and because the U.S. and Japanese productivity growth experiences over the past fifteen years or so lie at opposite ends of the spectrum of Western industrialized countries' productivity performance.

Download or read book Productivity Growth in Japan and the United States written by Charles R. Hulten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 rates remained relatively strong. There have been many attempts by scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explain this remarkable history, but for economists interested in the quantitative analysis of economic growth and the principal question addressed is how Japan was able to grow so rapidly. The contributors focus their efforts on the accurate measurement and comparison of Japanese and U.S. economic growth. Assuming that any sustained increase in real GNP must be due either to an increase in the quantity of capital and labor used in production or to the more efficient use of these inputs, the authors analyze the individual contributions of various factors and their importance in the process of output growth. These essays extend the methodology of growth analysis and offer many insights into the factors leading to the superior performance of the Japanese economy. They demonstrate that growth is a complex process and no single factor can explain the Japanese 'miracle.'

Download or read book R D and Productivity Growth written by Jacques Mairesse and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RetD and Productivity Growth written by Zvi Griliches and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Productive Edge written by Richard Keith Lester and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of U.S. industrial performance show how recent gains in productivity in key sectors can serve as models for renewed growth in the economy as a whole. In this illuminating book, a leading authority on this crucial issue searches five recent success stories for clues to shape a new national strategy for economic growth. Illustrations.

Download or read book Productivity Growth and U S Competitiveness written by Committee for Economic Development and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, written by a distinguished team of economists working with the Committee for Economic Development, provides an empirical analysis of this country's productivity problems as well as concrete recommendation for their solution. This collection of papers by leading economic authorities investigates an important topic - the slowdown in U.S. productivity. Individual papers discuss the dimensions of the economic problem, draw comparisons with other economies, especially Japan's, and suggest ways to increase U.S. productivity.

Download or read book R D and Productivity Growth Comparing Japanese and U S Manufacturing Firms written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book R D Production Structure and Productivity Growth in the U S Japanese and German Manufacturing Sectors written by Pierre A. Mohnen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Input Measurement and Productivity Growth in Japanese and U S Manufacturing written by John Randolph Norsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes multifactor productivity growth (based on capital, labor, energy, and materials) and labor productivity growth in the Japanese and U.S. manufacturing sectors. We find that the tests of separability required for a value-added approach fail for both the U.S. and Japan, making gross output the correct approach.Additionally, confirming Jorgenson and Nishimizu, we find that the remarkable differences in productive efficiency between Japan and the U.S. -- at the two-digit industry level -- are largely due to differences in the levels of capital investment and not to differences in multifactor productivity.

Download or read book The Production Structure the Adjustment Dynamics R D and the Productivity Slowdown written by Pierre A. Mohnen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book R D and Productivity Growth in Japanese Manufacturing Firms written by Hyeog Ug Kwon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Productivity Lessons for America written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on International Trade, Finance, and Security Economics and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Productive Edge written by Richard K. Lester and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating tale of America's industrial comeback--how it happened, where it happened, and what must be done to make it last".--Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. Charts.

Download or read book Productivity and the American Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unraveling the Productivity Growth Slowdown in the U S Canada and Japan written by Catherine J. Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from fixity of factors, costs of adjustment, returns to scale and markups. This paper proposes a general two part framework for adjusting the residual measure to take these impacts into account. Errors computing the weights on output and quasi-fixed input growth in traditional measures are first corrected for both primal- and Cost-side measures. Then the deviation of revenues from costs is used to decompose the full primal measure to identify the differential influences of technical change, utilization fluctuations, scale economies and price margins. Use of the framework is illustrated empirically for the U.S., Japanese and Canadian manufacturing sectors, using an econometric model that allows explicit incorporation and measurement of these influences. The adjusted measures show that a significant amount of cyclical and secular change in measured productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies

Download or read book R and D Production Structure and Productivity Growth written by M Nadiri (Ishaq) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Start up Factories written by Peter B. Doeringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the findings of a study of start-up factories in the United States by Japanese companies. Discusses the quality of jobs these factories produce and reveals their keys to success in achieving a strong competitive advantage. Gives the four inter-related strategies ( high performance management strategy, the economics of efficient wages, the quality of technology plants and regional economic development) that make for successful, high performance factories.