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 …

sample of publicly-traded firms in Japan (covering more than 75% of all firms listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange) over 1989 … per employee results in statistically significant productivity gains. Furthermore, such productivity gains are found to …-executive employees and stock option aimed at incentivizing executives. Finally the positive effects on productivity, profitability, wages …