This article examines long‐term labour productivity change in Japan from the early seventeenth century to the nineteenth century. We constructed sectoral labour force estimates based on the methodology presented in a previous study, who provided a sectoral GDP series covering the Tokugawa period. Our results show the industrial structure in the Tokugawa period remained relatively stable in comparison with the economy after the Meiji Restoration. Nevertheless, the estimates of sectoral labour productivity suggest expansion of the market economy in Tokugawa Japan influenced the development of industrialisation after the Meiji Restoration.

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长期的劳动生产率增长：日本，1600年至1909年

本文考察了17世纪初至19世纪日本长期劳动生产率的变化。我们根据先前研究中提供的方法构建了部门劳动力估计值，该方法提供了涵盖德川时期的部门GDP序列。我们的结果表明，与明治维新后的经济相比，德川时期的产业结构保持相对稳定。然而，部门劳动生产率的估计表明日本德川的市场经济扩张影响了明治维新后工业化的发展。