IT, an engine for growth.
Contributors: Sweden. Näringsdepartementet.
Publisher: Regeringskansliet, Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Sweden.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109).
"English version of DS 2000:68."
"ISSN 0375-250X"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: 2 New technology and growth; title: 2.1 What is the New Economy?; title: 2.2 Theories of economic growth; title: 2.3 IT and growth; title: 2.4 Concluding remarks; title: 3 New technology and employment; title: 3.1 Compensation mechanisms; title: 3.2 Empirical results; title: 3.3 Concluding remarks; title: 4 The importance of the IT sector for the Swedish economy.; title: 4.1 What is the IT sector?; title: 4.2 Employment in the IT sector; title: 4.3 The value added by the IT sector and its share of GNP; title: 4.4 The contribution of the IT sector to Sweden's growth; title: 4.5 Sweden's IT sector in an international perspective; title: 4.6 Conditions for the growth of the IT sector; title: 4.7 Concluding remarks; title: 5 Use of IT in industry; title: 5.1 The use of IT in Swedish companies; title: 5.2 Connection between productivity and IT maturity in companies.; title: 5.3 Conditions for an efficient usage of IT; title: 5.3.1 Adapted work organisation; title: 5.3.2 Additional investments in human capital; title: 5.3.3 A functioning IT infrastructure; title: 5.4 Concluding remarks; title: 6 Proficiency in IT; title: 6.1 What is IT proficiency?; title: 6.2 Access to a workforce proficient in IT; title: 6.2.1 Low proportion of women graduates with higher; title: education qualifications in IT; title: 6.3 Shortage of IT proficiency; title: 6.3.1 The wage pattern for IT specialists; title: 6.3.2 What has caused the shortage?; title: 6.4 Measures to enhance IT proficiency; title: 6.4.1 Examples of measures in Sweden; title: 6.4.2 Measures in some other countries; title: 6.5 Concluding remarks; title: Bibliography.