half of the manufacturing industries are dependent. The state of the art of the machine tools themselves, their control …

-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all … manufacturing industries have invested heavily in intangible assets such as R&D and vocational training. In 2005–2006, intangible … investment was 25 percent of value added in manufacturing, while the corresponding figure for the service sector was 11 percent …

The paper examines the constraint import competition imposes on the price-cost margins in Swedish manufacturing …

structure in thirteen branches of Swedish manufacturing industry. The function used which is the same in all thirteen branches …