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Title
Producer Services and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence from Japan Industrial Productivity Database
Creator
Creator Name
Tanaka, Kiyoyasu Tanaka, Kiyoyasu
田中, 清泰 田中, 清泰
タナカ, キヨヤス タナカ, キヨヤス
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Editor
Contributor Name
社会科学の高度統計・実証分析拠点構築 = Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences
Key Word
Producer Services
Service Sector
Productivity
Japan
JEL
D24
L60
L80
Abstract
As service sectors account for a growing share of economic activity in advanced economies, economists claim that the quality and cost of producer services supplied by the service sectors are crucial in supporting the competitiveness of manufacturing firms. This paper provides an empirical assessment on this argument by exploring a link between service-sector performance and manufacturing productivity in Japan for the period 1980-2005. Assuming that an improvement in producer services is measured with errors by a price deflator growth of service outputs, I propose an estimation framework in which an observed productivity depends partly on the performance of service sectors weighted by service-input intensities. Robust to a wide range of specifications and alternative indicators of services upgrading, I find little evidence that the service sectors contributed to productivity growth of the manufacturing sector. Thus, my findings do not support the claim that the upgrading of producer services improves manufacturing competitiveness.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2009-07
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series ; No. 76
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Related Identifier
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  http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Number of Pages
45
Sponsorship
グローバルCOEプログラム = Global COE Program
Appears in Collections
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/17498