IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eti/rpdpjp/07005.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Survey of Productivity in the Service Sector (Japanese)

Author

Listed:
  • KATO Atsuyuki

Abstract

Amid the remarkable advance in the service-orientation of the economies of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations in recent years there has been greater demand for studies on the effects of this on the macroeconomy and its implications for productivity dynamics and economic and industrial policies. Particularly since the revival of productivity in the United States in the latter half of the 1990s, one of the most important research issues in both Europe and Japan has become to elucidate its mechanism from the perspective of long-term economic growth strategy. To date, research has been conducted primarily on the basis of three issues: (1) the classification of concepts relating to services and the clarification of the targets of analysis, (2) the status and effects of the shift of economies toward service industries, and (3) factor analysis of growth in productivity. The findings of this research have been that the conventional perception of the service sector as being inferior to the manufacturing industry in terms of technical innovation, capital accumulation, and economy of scale is not necessarily appropriate; that there are large differences between countries and industries with regard to productivity dynamics; and that regulatory reforms to encourage competition and the effective use of information and communication technologies are important factors for achieving an increase in the rate of productivity growth. In addition, there has been growing interest in globalization through outsourcing and FDI and in the role of flexible labor markets, and also in a more realistic definition and analysis of innovation as a growth engine. However, in spite of this recent growth in interest in service productivity there has not, as yet, been any great accumulation of research results, owing to factors such as limitations on the availability of data. In view of this we have not reached the stage at which systematic and clear policy implications can be determined. Accordingly, with regard to productivity in service sectors with all their varied aspects, in this paper I survey prior research results, principally of empirical research in Europe, the U.S., and Japan, I classify current research results and clarify the issues, and I consider the direction of future research.

Suggested Citation

  • KATO Atsuyuki, 2007. "Survey of Productivity in the Service Sector (Japanese)," Policy Discussion Papers (Japanese) 07005, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
  • Handle: RePEc:eti:rpdpjp:07005
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/pdp/07p005.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eti:rpdpjp:07005. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: TANIMOTO, Toko (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rietijp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.