Superstatistics of Labour Productivity in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Sectors

Yuichi Ikeda, Yoshi Fujiwara, Hideaki Aoyama, Hiroshi Iyetomi and Wataru Souma

Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2009, vol. 3, No 2009-22, 17 pages

Abstract: Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied within the framework of statistical physics and the result is compared with the outcome of the empirical analysis. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for the productivity distribution. The demand index ê is proposed within this framework as a new business index. Productivity analysis is made on the Japanese data covering smallto-medium to large firms from 1996 to 2006 and the power-law for both firms and workers is established. The demand index ê is evaluated in the manufacturing sector. A new discovery is reported for the nonmanufacturing (service) sector, which calls for an expansion of the superstatistics framework to include the negative temperature range.

Keywords: Labour productivity; superstatistics; Pareto's Law; business cycle; demand index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 E30 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2009-22

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