This paper analyzes changes in the energy cost of goods and service production in the Japanese economy in the decade 1975-85. It develops an input-output scheme which explicitly and exhaustively decomposes changes in a sector`s embodied energy intensity into three causative components: the...

This paper tracks the progression of knowledge levels in the labor force between 1975 and 1985 in the Japanese economy as a whole and it's fifty-three component sectors, utilizing a measure of knowledge which reflects the worker's educational level and vocational preparation, verbal, numerical...