Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Contents vii
4. Prefatory Note ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Productivity and International Competitiveness in Japan and the United States, 1960-1985 29
7. 2. Bilateral Models of Production for Japanese and U. S. Industries 59
8. 3. Productivity Growth in the Motor Vehicle Industry, 1970- 1984: A Comparison of Canada, Japan, and the United States 85
9. 4. Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in the Electrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan 109
10. 5. Decisions of Firms and Productivity Growth with Fixed Input Constraints: An Empirical Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing 135
11. 6. Energy Price Shocks and Productivity Growth in the Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Industries 173
12. 7. Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States 201
13. 8. Alternative Measures of Capital Inputs in Japanese Manufacturing 229
14. 9. The Taxation of Income from Capital in Japan: Historical Perspectives and Policy Simulations 267
15. 10. Taxes and Corporate Investment in Japanese Manufacturing 295
16. 11. R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U. S. Manufacturing Firms 317
17. 12. Compositional Change of Heterogeneous Labor Input and Economic Growth in Japan 349
18. 13. Technical Change and Human Capital Acquisition in the U.S. and Japanese Labor Markets 385
19. 14. Labor Disputes and Productivity in Japan and the United States 411
20. Contributors 437
21. Author Index 441
22. Subject Index 444