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LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE LONG RUN: JAPAN, 1600–1909
Author(s) -
Settsu Tokihiko,
Takashima Masanori
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.12188
Subject(s) - industrialisation , productivity , meiji restoration , economics , meiji period , period (music) , industrial revolution , labour economics , economy , macroeconomics , economic history , market economy , geography , history , ancient history , acoustics , physics , archaeology
This article examines long‐term labour productivity change in Japan from the early seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. We constructed sectoral labour force estimates based on the methodology presented in a previous study, who provided a sectoral GDP series covering the Tokugawa period. Our results show the industrial structure in the Tokugawa period remained relatively stable in comparison with the economy after the Meiji Restoration. Nevertheless, the estimates of sectoral labour productivity suggest expansion of the market economy in Tokugawa Japan influenced the development of industrialisation after the Meiji Restoration.