Program Overview
Numerous studies on Japan have shown that growth in service sector productivity has been sluggish and, moreover, that productivity is quite low compared to the United States and Europe. Given that the service sector accounts for about 80 percent of Japan's GDP and employment, boosting service sector productivity plays a crucial role in raising economic growth and living standards. The project team has ample experience in the kind of research conducted and includes members of government-related statistics and research departments, with which the project works in close cooperation.
Organization
Members
|
Name (alphabetical order) |
Organization | Roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ayako Kondo | University of Tokyo | Research Collaborator | Group III: Institutional distortions in the services labor market |
| Daiji Kawaguchi | University of Tokyo | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Leader Group III (Labor & Human Capital) |
| Daisuke Miyakawa | Hitotsubashi University | Research Collaborator | Group II: Financing of intangible investment |
| Emiko Usui | Hitotsubashi University | Research Collaborator | Group I: Public services demand |
| Hideo Owan | Waseda University | Research Collaborator | Group III: Work patterns and productivity |
| Hyeog Ug Kwon | Nihon University | Research Collaborator | Group I: Productivity dynamics; creative industries |
| Ken Onishi | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Research Collaborator | Group III |
| Kentaro Nakajima | Hitotsubashi University | Research Collaborator | Group IV: Urban business services; regional inequality |
| Kohei Kawaguchi | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Research Collaborator | Group III: Production functions under imperfect competition |
| Kyoji Fukao | Hitotsubashi University | Principal Investigator | Leader Group I (Supervision & Measurement) |
| Makiko Nakamuro | Keio University | Research Collaborator | Group III: Higher education geared toward service activities |
| Masayuki Morikawa | Hitotsubashi University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Group IV: Industry 4.0; service home production; price regulations |
| Miho Takizawa | Gakushuin University | Research Collaborator | Group II: ICT investment; intangible assets |
| Miki Kohara | Osaka University | Research Collaborator | Group IV: Utility function estimation |
| Naohito Abe | Hitotsubashi University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Leader Group IV (Simultaneity of Production & Consumption) |
| Noriko Inakura | Shikoku University | Research Collaborator | Group IV |
| Osamu Saito | Hitotsubashi University | Research Collaborator | Group I: History of service sector employment system |
| Satoshi Tanaka | The University of Queensland | Research Collaborator | Group IV |
| Shigeru Sugihara | Nihon University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Group I: Medical care sector productivity |
| Takashi Oshio | Hitotsubashi University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Group I: Public services demand; education sector productivity |
| Tokihiko Settsu | Musashi University | Research Collaborator | Group I |
| Tomohiko Inui | Gakushuin University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Group III: Higher education geared toward service activities |
| Toshiyuki Matsuura | Keio University | Research Collaborator | Group I |
| Tsutomu Miyagawa | Gakushuin University | Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) | Leader Group II (Capital Accumulation) |
| Yutaka Kayaba | University of Tokyo | Research Collaborator | Group III |