Nemoto, Jiro; Goto, Mika - 2021
This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …