[PDF] Understanding The Swedish Model eBook

Author : Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780714634456

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First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gregg Bucken-Knapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739138168

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Across Europe the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda However for many on the political left concerns exist that less restrictive labor migration policies threaten core features of the social democratic project. This is perhaps clearest in Sweden which in late 2008 adopted a liberal approach to third-country national labor migration allowing employers to hire freely from outside the European Union. Defending the Swedish Model explores the debate leading up to this reform focusing on the preferences of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish trade union confederation (LO). While generally positive to the economic potential of increased labor migration these allies remained highly skeptical toward calls from employers and bourgeois parties for liberalization Gregg Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop their labor migration policy preference on the basis of whether specific reform alternatives are perceived as being consistent with or as undermining the Swedish model in the case of third-country nationals both allies considered liberalization a threat to full employment aims instead seeking to preserve an influential role for the state labor market board and organized labor. Bucken-knapp also focuses on the Swedish labor migration debate prior to the 2004 enlargement of the European union showing how SAP concerns over potential abuse of the universal welfare sate led to its support for transitional arrangements defending the Swedish model illuminates the challenges faced by social democrats and trade unions when considering the need for increased labor migration Book jacket.

Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226261859

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Once heralded in the 1950s and 1960s as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition and in trouble since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This volume presents ten essays that examine Sweden's economic problems from a U.S. perspective. Exploring such diverse topics as income equalization and efficiency, welfare and tax policy, wage determination and unemployment, and international competitiveness and growth, they consider how Sweden's welfare state succeeded in eliminating poverty and became a role model for other countries. They then reflect on Sweden's past economic problems, such as the increase in government spending and the fall in industrial productivity, warning of problems to come. Finally they review the consequences of the collapse of Sweden's economy in the early 1990s, exploring the implications of its efforts to reform its welfare state and reestablish a healthy economy. This volume will be of interest to policymakers and analysts, social scientists, and economists interested in welfare states.

Author : Jon Pierre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199665672

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The Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.

Author : Susanne Handorf
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3640835441

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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: sehr gut, Linköping University, language: English, abstract: Diese Arbeit beinhaltet einzelne Fragen zum schwedischen Wohlfahrtsstaat, die anhand der Literatur diskutiert werden.