Since the mid-1990s value added has grown faster in the Swedish business sector than in most other OECD countries. We investigate the association between information and communications technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) capital and value added in the Swedish non-farm business...

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 employment growth since the mid 1990s has...