Labor Productivity in Western Europe 1975–1985: An Intercountry, Interindustry Analysis

Dietzenbacher, Erik; Hoen, Alex R.; Los, Bart

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“…: (i) material goods (including energy) absorbed by material goods, (ii) material goods absorbed by services, (iii) services absorbed by material goods, and (iv) services absorbed by services. Then, by originally applying input-output partitioning techniques (see Miyazawa (26) for the seminal contribution; Sonis et al (27,28) for its application to regional studies; Fritz et al (29) for its application to environmental studies) and Dietzenbacher's full structural decomposition (30,31) techniques, the indirect domestic CO 2 emissions associated with household consumption can be additively decomposed into df d for the on-site emissions of the industries concerned and p j kl for supply chain emissions, as expressed in eq 2, in which k, l ) 1 are the group of commodities for material goods and k, l ) 2 are the group for services.…”

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Material and Energy Dependence of Services and Its Implications for Climate Change

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Kagawa

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Environ. Sci. Technol.

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As the services industry has grown and diversified, there has been a rapid rise in the share of energy and material costs in provision of services. As a result, services, which have traditionally been considered immaterial by their nature, are now absorbing substantial amounts of energy and material goods. By decomposing the CO 2 emissions embodied in material goods and services, this study quantitatively analyzes the implications of energy and materials consumption in services for the change in indirect CO 2 emissions by household consumers in Japan. The results show that the domestic CO 2 emissions associated with the energy and material goods absorbed by services through the supply chain increased consistently during the decade 1990-2000, thereby constituting a key element in the rise in CO 2 emissions due to household consumption. The energy and materials within the supply chain underlying services that have been identified as the main causes of this increase include electric power consumption, petroleum products, building renovation and repair, distribution of printed materials, plastic products and water, all of which are necessary to support the services in question. This study highlights the increasing importance of energy and materials consumption by services in the context of climate change policy.

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Material and Energy Dependence of Services and Its Implications for Climate Change

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Suh

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“…The concept was developed extensively by Pasinetti (1973Pasinetti ( , 1981. Wolff (1985) and Dietzenbacher et al (2000) explicitly referred to the concept in empirical productivity analyses based on IOTs. For a long time, mainstream economists viewed the study of vertically integrated industries as an exotic activity.…”

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Input–output Analysis: The Next 25 Years

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Economic Systems Research

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“…A similar finding can be found in the research on labor productivity conducted by Dietzenbacher et al (2000) as well, but the finding is contrary to Weber (2009)'s study on the U.S. indicating that structural change caused by a quickly increasing trade deficit in manufacturing good can be explained more in the drop of energy demand. In economies such as Australia, Mainland China, South Korea, and Taiwan on supply side, the trade effect seems to be much stronger than in other economies, while in some other major players in international trade like the U.S. and the EU, the trade effect tends to be neutral.…”

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“…In the case of China, other researchers decompose carbon dioxide emissions instead of energy consumption, pointing out that (1) rapid carbon dioxide emissions result from economic growth and structural change and improvement in energy efficiency can offset them (Han & Chatterjee, 1997), using nine selected countries' data from 1972 to 1990; but (2) specifically using data for China from 1982 to 2002, energy efficiency gains are not sufficient enough to stabilize future emissions from China, if energy consumption patterns converge on the current level of the U.S. (Guan et al, 2008). Unlike other SDA studies employing absolute change approach, Dietzenbacher, Hoen, and Los (2000) choose to decompose the relative change in the study of labor productivity dynamics in six Western European countries. Compared to absolute change approach, it would be more convenient to compare different economies or sectors that have large differences through calculating relative change.…”

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Finally and most importantly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my parents, who always believe in me and have endured my absence from family for so many years. Thank you so much for your love, support and giving me the freedom to chase my dreams. 11 SummaryAs an influential development paradigm, sustainable development has gained broad support from various governments and organizations at regional, national and global levels. It is a process involving many important dimensions and its study requires efforts from researchers from all the disciplines of natural and social sciences. In this thesis, we focus on energy efficiency, a key element in the pursuit of sustainable development. The dynamics of energy efficiency is an evolutionary process that involves industries, technologies and institutions. Therefore, it requires a wide range of policies, aimed at both macro and micro levels. It is of primary importance to have a careful economic study of all the detailed processes that are involved in the policy-relevant areas. Numerous programs, funds, facilities related to energy efficiency have been implemented so far and are still ongoing. In the study of energy efficiency, many policy-relevant areas that require numerous research and financial inputs and careful empirical analysis are involved. Due to data availability and the feasibility of this study to be effectively conducted, as an early step, we narrow down our research at micro and macro levels to the following aspects: energy consumption and energy efficiency at sectoral and country levels, aggregate vehicle energy efficiency (regional level) and the technologies related to energy efficiency in the fields of power station, ICT in buildings and vehicles. We hope that our results can shed light on the relevant policies and studies in the future.Using large datasets, this dissertation provides a comprehensive narrative of how energy efficiency and the technologies related to energy efficiency evolve over time. We develop a new analytical framework and several measures for crucial factors affecting energy consumption and energy efficiency in trade at sectoral and country levels. Based on big data of individual vehicles and their owners, we design an empirical statistical approach to estimate regional aggregate vehicle energy efficiency that is formed by the technological characteristics and collective behaviors of micro-agents (e.g., purchase and usage of vehicles and migration), and describe the life cycle and restructuring of the vehicle population. Also, we identify the technological trajectories of technologies related to energy efficiency, and develop some measures for whether a country can be classified as an incumbent country or a latecomer country, and for how much a country contributes to technological development. The approaches used in this dissertation that build aggregate or macro measures on the basis of detailed and micro large datasets are of great value for the study of economic, industrial and scientific evolution. The 12 optimal ...

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Labor Productivity in Western Europe 1975–1985: An Intercountry, Interindustry Analysis

Cited by 90 publications

References 26 publications

Material and Energy Dependence of Services and Its Implications for Climate Change

Material and Energy Dependence of Services and Its Implications for Climate Change

Input–output Analysis: The Next 25 Years

Moving towards an energy efficient future

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