manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

-effects logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity and the decision to export. One … between export probability and labour productivity on the one hand and skill intensity on the other is significant for micro …he export participation of SMEs in the Swedish computer and business service industries has increased rapidly over the …

relationship between innovation and productivity in Finland, Norway and Sweden at the firm level. Although these countries enjoy a …The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …

; occupations ; wages ; productivity …

This paper analyzes how firms with different financial strength levels respond to demand shocks in their export markets … 2014, which allows us to analyze the effects of several macroeconomic shocks affecting the export product demand and … performance of exporting firms. We find that financially stronger export firms are better positioned during both positive and …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally … observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden … had one of the most regulated business sectors in the developed world. In the 1990s, however, Sweden reformed its labour …