The Japanese Cotton Textile Industry

Keijiro Otsuka (), Gustav Ranis and Gary Saxonhouse
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Gustav Ranis: Yale University

Chapter 3 in Comparative Technology Choice in Development, 1988, pp 21-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The data in Table 3.1 show the general effects of changes in spinning technology in Japan, i.e. their overall labour-using character is demonstrated by the substantial decline in the capital-labour ratio between 1886–90 and 1891–5. This capital shallowing was combined with an equally dramatic decline in the capital-output ratio. Innovational intensity was large enough to provide an increase in average labour productivity despite the strong labour-using bias of the changes adopted (Fei and Ranis, 1965).

Keywords: Ring Frame; Core Spin; Average Labour Productivity; Wide Cloth; Staple Length (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19140-6_3

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