-specific knowledge. Foreign greenfields have the highest average labour productivity, while foreign privatizations show the largest …-2000. We find that foreign privatized firms have realized larger productivity gains than all types of domestic firms and that … productivity increase. …

markets. We use a dynamic structural model to estimate retail productivity in a local market setting. In particular, we … provide a general strategy of how to measure the causal effect of entry of large stores on productivity separate from demand … in Sweden, we find that large entrants force low productivity stores to exit and surviving stores to increase their …

popular support for business-friendly policies. This can lead to long-term reductions in aggregate investment, productivity …

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of … stronger predictor of labor market outcomes than cognitive ability. In particular, we find strong evidence that men who fare … productivity irrespective of occupation or ability level, though it seems to be of particular importance for workers in a …

mostly are knowledge intensive services have contributed considerable to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing since …Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU …-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all …

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 …

ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity …-to-one correspondence between the productivity space and the urban location space. Workers with high productivities and wages reside close …

growth is viewed as resulting from the continuous discovery and use of productive knowledge. Rapid firm growth requires a set …. The institutional framework determines the incentives for these individuals to acquire and utilize knowledge. We identify …

indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological … Sweden 1900-35. The results show that during the productivity boom of the 1920s, the constant prices for electric motors … high productivity growth in the industry producing electric motors 1920-29. In contrast to Sweden, the US annual total …

This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the … original invention until a substantial increase in the rate of productivity growth can be observed. There is also strong … persuasive direct evidence that the steam engine producing industry and electric machinery had particularly high productivity …