In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

This paper examines employment and productivity dynamics in the Swedish business sector during the period 1996-2013. In … order to analyze employment and productivity in a consistent way we apply a novel implementation of a method, which … previously has been used extensively to analyze job dynamics, on both job and productivity dynamics. Our results, based on …

The contributions of entry and exit of firms to aggregate productivity growth are well-established in the literature …. However, the impact of industry switching of firms on productivity remains overlooked. The purpose of this report is to shed … both positive and negative contributions to aggregate productivity in different periods. Intra-industry switching had …