representation. In particular, we study 106 production sectors in Japan over the 2003-2012 period and identify highly interconnected … signs in community 2 are responsible for the weak divergence in labor productivity for all industries in Japan …

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 …