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Retail Dynamics and Productivity in Japan by Srinivasan Kannan is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document analyzes market dynamics and productivity in the Japanese retail industry in the late 1990s using microdata from the Retail and Wholesale Census conducted in 1997 and 2002. It finds that there was substantial turnover of retail establishments during this period through entry and exit, as well as employment reallocation associated with this. This market dynamics contributed to aggregate productivity growth in the retail industry. The document also discusses issues with measuring productivity in
- Author
- Srinivasan Kannan
- Language
- EN