The welfare state in transition : reforming the Swedish model / edited by Richard B. Freeman, Robert Topel, and Birgitta Swedenborg.

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TextSeries: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report | Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 477 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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online resource

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0226261859
9780226261850

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Welfare state in transition.DDC classification:

330.9485/059 21

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HC375 .W34 1997eb

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The Welfare State in Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way; 2. Public Employment, Taxes, and the Welfare State in Sweden; 3. Tax Policy in Sweden; 4. Wage Policy and Restructuring: The Swedish Labor Market since 1960; 5. The Effects of Sweden's Welfare State on Labor Supply Incentives; 6. An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom; 7. Taxes and Subsidies in Swedish Unemployment.

Summary: 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, su.

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A research report presented at a public conference held in Sweden in January 1995.

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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, su.

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