1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … productivity in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States -- 8. Assessing Japan's industrial competitiveness by … comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan …

comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

Although it has been previously accepted that Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan have achieved the … factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …

1. Introduction : what is the New Economy? / Dennis W. Jansen -- 2. Projecting productivity growth : lessons from the … multifactor productivity in US service industries / Jack E. Triplett and Barry P. Bosworth -- 4. The New Economy and the …

productivity and the re-organization of work in the global car industry …

Analysing the USA and Japan from the late 19th century to the present day, the book provides an accessible synthesis of …1. Introduction -- 2. Organizational innovations from the 1860s in the USA and Japan -- 3. The role of OIs in the … the USA and Japan -- 7. Empirical evidence on the links between industrial sectoral growth and the Lean Production System …

system and private savings in Italy -- Do the elderly dissave in Japan? -- On robust monetary policy -- The euro and the … account -- Land prices and business fixed investment in Japan -- Rationality, behavior and switching idiosyncracies in the …