--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-11/manufacturing-productivity-in-sweden-an-international-perspective-since-1960/" title: "Manufacturing Productivity in Sweden: An International Perspective Since 1960" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T06:53:27+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T06:53:27+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Fall 2005" ipm_keyword: - "BLS" - "Ericsson" - "ICT" - "international comparison" - "manufacturing productivity" - "OECD" - "shift-share" - "Sweden" ipm_research_theme: - "Sectoral and firm-level dynamics" ipm_country_focus: - "International" - "OECD" - "Sweden" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Manufacturing Productivity in Sweden: An International Perspective Since 1960 Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-11/manufacturing-productivity-in-sweden-an-international-perspective-since-1960/ # Manufacturing Productivity in Sweden: An International Perspective Since 1960 [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-11-6-Lind.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Lind, Daniel. 2005. “Manufacturing Productivity in Sweden: An International Perspective Since 1960.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 11 (Fall 2005): 47–56. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-11/manufacturing-productivity-in-sweden-an-international-perspective-since-1960/ ## Author: - Daniel Lind Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (TCO) ## IPM Issue 11 Fall 2005 pp. 47–56 ## Related IPM articles [Is the SNA Still Useful? 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Using a shift-share method applied to 18 sub-industries, the article finds that most of the Swedish outperformance in the latter half of the 1990s and early 2000s was driven by the radio, television, and communications equipment industry — and in particular by Ericsson. Cet article met à jour des recherches antérieures sur la productivité manufacturière suédoise avec des données jusqu’en 2004, constatant que la croissance de la productivité manufacturière suédoise a inversé ses contre-performances antérieures dans les années 1990 et a dépassé la moyenne internationale depuis 1993. À l’aide d’une méthode de décomposition appliquée à 18 sous-industries, l’article constate que l’essentiel de la surperformance suédoise dans la seconde moitié des années 1990 et au début des années 2000 était portée par l’industrie de la radio, de la télévision et des équipements de communications — et en particulier par Ericsson. 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