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Unveiling Historical Occupational Structures and its Implications for Sectoral Labour Productivity Analysis in Japan's Economic Growth

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  • Osamu Saito
  • Tokihiko Settsu

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This paper aims to offer new estimates of gainfully occupied workers in Japan between 1885 and 1940. The estimates are made by taking explicitly widespread farm-family by-employment into account, and then they will be allocated into the primary, secondary and tertiary (PST) sectors. With the new workforce statistics and revised estimates of net output in the tertiary sector for the same period, we would also like to examine the levels of differentials in average labour productivity between the three sectors. The paper will show that labour productivity differentials between agriculture and manufacturing in early stages of Japan's industrialisation were not as wide as both Gerschenkronian and dual structurist arguments tended to assume for late industrialisers.

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  • Osamu Saito & Tokihiko Settsu, 2010. "Unveiling Historical Occupational Structures and its Implications for Sectoral Labour Productivity Analysis in Japan's Economic Growth," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series gd10-143, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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    1. Osamu Saito & Masanori Takashima, 2016. "Estimating the shares of secondary- and tertiary-sector outputs in the age of early modern growth: the case of Japan, 1600–18741," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 20(3), pages 368-386.
    2. Saito, Osamu & Takashima, Masanori, 2015. "Estimating the shares of secondary- and tertiary-sector output in the age of early modern growth: the case of Japan, 1600-1874," RCESR Discussion Paper Series DP15-4, Research Center for Economic and Social Risks, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    3. Kausik Gangopadhyay & Debasis Mondal & Thasni T, 2024. "The Decomposition of Productivity Growth for India: Before and After 1991," IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, , vol. 13(1), pages 90-100, January.
    4. Settsu, Tokihiko, 2015. "Industrial Structure, Prefectural Inequality, and Convergence in Pre-war Japan (1874-1940)," RCESR Discussion Paper Series DP15-1, Research Center for Economic and Social Risks, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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