The evolution of regional labour productivities in Japanese manufacturing, 1968-2004

Regional Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1189-1205

  Essletzbichler, Jürgen ^a   Kadokawa, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Japan; Manufacturing; Markov chain analysis; Productivity; Regional convergence; Variance shift share analysis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; MARKOV CHAIN; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY; SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 77958546020     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400903365060     Document Type: Article

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