Regional inequality and migration in prewar Japan, 1890-1940

Ralph Paprzycki, Kyoji Fukao, Jean-Pascal Bassino (), Tokihiko Settsu and Tangjun Yuan
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Ralph Paprzycki: Hitotsubashi University
Tokihiko Settsu: Musashi University
Tangjun Yuan: Fudan University

No 13012, Working Papers from Economic History Society

Abstract: "We analyze the changing patterns of regional inequality during the initial phase of Japanese industrialization on the basis of new estimates of industry-level Japanese GDP constructed for the benchmark years 1890, 1909, 1925, 1935, and 1940 for each of the 47 prefectures. No “Kuznets” inverted U-curve is observed during the period 1890-1940 in terms of the coefficient of variation of prefecture-level per capita GDP, but rather a slow decline, reflecting a contraction in within-industry productivity across prefectures. We also estimate in- and out-migration by prefecture and find that sizable population flows took place from the poorest rural areas to the industrializing urban areas. We estimate the contribution of changes in productivity, industrial structure, and population to the observed convergence and find that internal migration played an important role, as it did during the two decades of high-speed economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s."

Keywords: "spatial inequality; migration; convergence; industrial structure" (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N15 N95 O18 O47 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
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