This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and 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 …

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 … productivity …