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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …

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Lady and the Trump: Status and Wealth in the Marriage Market

Almenberg, Johan; Dreber, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We examine a hitherto unexplored aspect of intergenerational transmission of economic standing, namely culturally determined status markers and their valuation in the marriage market. We take nobility to be such a status marker. We propose a two-trait extension of the optimal sorting model in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645351

Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. According to … economists there have been primarily three explanations for the fast productivity growth in 1995–2004: Market reforms, recovery … productivity boom. The results show that investment in intangibles was approximately 246 bn SEK in 2004 or 9 percent of GDP …

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How Can Economic Policy Stricke a Balance Between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not to answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486491

How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006) working papers on spending on intangible assets in the US and the UK. Based on their measurement methods the total spending on intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or...

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The Dynamics of Supply and Economic Growth: How Industrial Knowledge Accumulation Drives a Path Dependent Economic Process

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

No abstract.

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Education, Competence Development and Economic Growth - A Micro Explanation to Macro Economic Growth

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992

No abstract.

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Sweden's Relative Economic Performance: Lagging Behind or Staying on Top?

Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

The purpose of this papers is confined to illuminating the aspect: Has Sewedish economic growth been slow relative to other industrialised countries in recent decades, i.e. is Sweden lagging behind

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818324

How Can Economic Policy Strike a Balance between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality?

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Can income equality be combined with high economic efficiency and rapid economic growth? Fortunately, we need not to answer such a general question. Indeed, the question is poorly phrased. The relationship between income and wealth distribution, on one hand, and efficiency/growth, on the other,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699977

Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development

Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these countries. The model describes two symmetric countries trading with each other and the industrial rest of the world. Bilateral trade occurs at any moment if the countries have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670111