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 …

, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. In that way, Sweden took early action compared to other OECD … implemented during the 1990s are now paying off in terms of productivity and GDP growth. Empirical evidence suggests that … deregulation has delivered a considerable “productivity dividend”. Although significant progress therefore has been made, renewed …

store specific information to estimate the impact on productivity of space and the specific effects of planning … restrictiveness on the productivity of retailing. It is the first paper to analyse the contribution of space to productivity and to … restrictiveness directly reduces productivity in retailing thereby increasing retail prices. …

; occupations ; wages ; productivity …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey …