Since the early 1990s, there have been larger and increasing labor productivity differences across industries in Japan … stylized facts, we first evaluate the input-output structure of Japan through the lens of a community-detection algorithm from … Japan in the context of each network structure. Results suggest that divergence is mostly driven by the transitional …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …