Labour Productivity Growth in the Long Run: Japan, 1600–1909

Settsu, Tokihiko; Takashima, Masanori

doi:10.1111/aehr.12188

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“…Especially the fear of radical changes in the economic structure of the industrial sectors connected with the Industry 4.0 initiatives. But if we look for the examples in the human history (Settsu & Takashima, 2020;Hasino & Otsuka, 2020), there are a lot of cases where there was similar fear of exchanging the human force as workers by the force of inventions and especially machines. Nowadays we are not even able to imagine our life without the mobile phones and other mobile devices making the communication easy and very available.…”

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Industry 4.0 - Relationship Between Capital Equipment and Labor Productivity

Marinič¹,

Pecina²

2021

Hradec Economic Days

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Using new technology in production process is naturally connected with the economic development due to attempt to increase labor productivity and/or decrease in unit production costs. In last decades, term Industry 4.0 is used for such cases, as industrial revolution connected with new technology, especially information and communication technology, used in production process. Industry 4.0 is also connected with a fear of disappearing different kind of occupations replaced by new technology and with the fear of lack of employees in other occupations requiring suitable but not yet existing qualification.In the article we present the development of economic indicators and ratios based on production output, compensation on employees, capital equipment, volume of workers, and hours worked to illustrate development of labor productivity in 1995-2018 in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Germany. We present results about significant changes in economic structure in analyzed countries, but as results of economic development or economic transformation process. Thus, we try to articulate that the development is rather economic evolution than industrial revolution and that there is no reason to be afraid of Industry 4.0 process.

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Industry 4.0 - Relationship Between Capital Equipment and Labor Productivity

Marinič¹,

Pecina²

2021

Hradec Economic Days

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“…The consecutive acceleration of per capita GDP growth rate is evident in the period 1804–1909. The acceleration of the annual growth rate of the secondary industry's labour productivity in this period appears to have caused the acceleration of economic growth (Settsu & Takashima, 2020, p. 20).…”

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Machine‐reeling technology diffusion in early Meiji Japan's silk industry

Moriwaki¹

2023

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review

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Using 1880 s panel data from Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures in Japan, we estimated the diffusion factors and total factor productivity (TFP) in machine-reeling technology in Japan's silk-reeling sector. While the cost of distance through the traditional highway from the Shimosuwa-shuk post town in the Nagano Prefecture has a negative correlation with technology diffusion, the correlation of silk production per population is positive. Machine-reeling technology is raw-materialintensive and does not show increasing returns to scale. While the TFP in Yamanashi is higher than in Gifu, machine-reeling output expansion is larger in the latter.

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“…These ideas are based on the conviction that changes connected with the Industry 4.0 are radical. But if we look in the history, there were changes in production caused by industrialization [4,5] and they were also connected with the same kind of fears. The emotional point of view, the fear of losing the individual competitive position of each of us as a worker due to implementation of new technologies and need of new competencies is understandable at individual level.…”

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Industry 4.0 – Analysis of the Industry Sectors in Czech Republic and Slovakia

Marinič¹

2022

EDAMBA 2021 : COVID-19 Recovery: The Need for Speed : Conference Proceedings

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Industry 4.0 has become very popular topic in recent years for a lot of people, especially economists, technicians but also teachers. All of them are trying to find out how to implement the ideas of Industry 4.0 in their field, how to develop them and what impact the Industry 4.0 would have. A lot of them are worried about radical changes connected with the implementation is ideas of Industry 4.0, as they understand the Industry 4.0 initiative as revolutionary rather than evolutionary change. In the article, there are data from Eurostat for the NACE sectors breakdown from Czech Republic and Slovakia presented as the background for the main idea of not radical change caused by Industry 4.0. The development of chosen economical indexes for the time-period of 1995 till 2018 are analyzed to illustrate the development of the position of human labor and using the machinery in different kinds of sector types. As the aim of the article is to show, that the fear of radical changes connected with the Industry 4.0 initiatives, are not based on hard data and are more emotionally motivated.

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Labour Productivity Growth in the Long Run: Japan, 1600–1909

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Industry 4.0 - Relationship Between Capital Equipment and Labor Productivity

Industry 4.0 - Relationship Between Capital Equipment and Labor Productivity

Machine‐reeling technology diffusion in early Meiji Japan's silk industry

Industry 4.0 – Analysis of the Industry Sectors in Czech Republic and Slovakia

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