In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on … contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … growth in Japan from for the next decade is substantially below that in the United States, mainly due to slower growth of …

differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …

(with little effect on low educated workers performing manual non-routine tasks). Using industry level data on the US, Japan …