| Description |
1 online resource (490 pages) |
| Series |
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report |
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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Economic history
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Economic History.
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Business & Economics.
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| SUBJECT |
Sweden -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Congresses
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| Subject |
Sweden
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Topel, Robert H
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Swedenborg, Birgitta
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| LC no. |
96050195 |
| ISBN |
9780226261850 |
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0226261859 |
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1281430951 |
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9781281430953 |
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9786611430955 |
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6611430954 |
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