Overview
Policies to enhance productivity in the Japanese economy, where expansion of the productivity gap is noted, are required in the second stage of Abenomics. This project analyzes the industrial origins and the structural factors in Japan's productivity gap. In particular, the project focuses mainly on the source of inferiority in the wholesale and retail industry, the role of labor quality and industry allocation for reducing the labor productivity gap in the service industry, and the relationship between energy productivity and overall efficiency.
January 15, 2018 - December 31, 2019
Major Research Results
2019
RIETI Discussion Papers
- 20-J-008
"How Can Measurement of Benchmark Production Systems be Improved? – The Structure of Secondary Products by Main Activity based on the Survey on Diversification of Sales in Japan" (NOMURA Koji) - 20-J-007
"Wholesale and Retail Service Price Indices in Japan: Retrospective Measurement from 1955" (NOMURA Koji)
