Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution

Arbeitspapier

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these technological breakthroughs. The results show that labor productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology-producing industries following the ICT revolution. Moreover, the results presented here show no evidence that industries that were early adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 714

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: Europe: 1913- ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes ; Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
• Subject: Electrification ; ICT Revolution ; Productivity Growth ; Technological Change ; Produktivität ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Elektrizitätspolitik ; Informationstechnik ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Edquist, Harald
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/81223
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET