relationships between investment, productivity, and economic growth are much more complex and unpredictable than commonly assumed …This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of … a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based …

productivity boom. The results show that investment in intangibles was approximately 246 bn SEK in 2004 or 9 percent of GDP …–2004. Thus, investment in intangibles was an important source to the Swedish productivity boom in 1995–2004. …After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. According to …

total investment in intangibles was 227 billion or approximately two-thirds of the total investment in fixed capital in 2004 …. Thus, investment in intangibles was considerable in 2004. The corresponding figures for the UK and the US were 10.9 and 13 …

performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. <p> The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …