Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009
-sector performance and manufacturing productivity in Japan for the period 1980-2005. Assuming that an improvement in producer services is … productivity depends partly on the performance of service sectors weighted by service-input intensities. Robust to a wide range of … productivity growth of the manufacturing sector. Thus, my findings do not support the claim that the upgrading of producer services …