1996 Volume 3 Pages 39-55
We estimated the effect of medical activity in inducing production for each industry through interindustry transactions using Miyazawa’s interaction model of goods industries and service industries, after reorganizing the official input-output table in 1990 and producing a new input-output table which consists of 24 goods industries and 24 service industries. The main conclusions are as follows.
①The effect of medical activity in inducing production for all the industries through interindustry transactions is less than the average of 48 industries but, considering the effect of household consumption, the effect is more than that of the construction industry, depending on the magnitude of propensity to consume.
②The effect of medical activity in inducing production in service industries directly (the internal multiplier) is small but the effect of medical activity in inducing production for service industries indirectly through goods industries (the external multiplier) is greatest in service industries.
③Generally, the effect of service industries in inducing production for goods industries has been weaker over time and the effect of goods industries in inducing production for service industries has been stronger over time. But the effect of medical activity in inducing production for goods industries has been stronger over time.
