Hideaki, AOYAMA; Hiroshi, IYETOMI; Yuichi, IKEDA; … - Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) - 2012
We shed light on the current status of small- and medium-sized (SMS) firms in Japan by studying their distribution of labor productivity on the basis of exhaustive financial data on one million firms. In fact, the labor productivity shows significant variance in disagreement with the prediction...