Reforming the welfare state : recovery and beyond in Sweden / edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2010.
Description
xi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Series
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
  • Searching for optimal inequality/incentives / Anders Björklund and Richard B. Freeman
  • Policies affecting work patterns and labor income for women / Ann-Sofie Kolm and Edward P. Lazear
  • Wage determination and employment in Sweden since the early 1990s: wage formation in a new setting / Peter Fredriksson and Robert Topel
  • Labor supply, tax base, and public policy in Sweden / Thomas Aronsson and James R. Walker
  • Did active labor market policies help Sweden rebound from the depression of the early 1990s? / Anders Forslund and Alan Krueger
  • How Sweden's unemployment became more like Europe's / Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent
  • Economic performance and market work activity in Sweden after the crisis of the early 1990s / Steven J. Davis and Magnus Henrekson
  • Competition, regulation, and the role of local government policies in Swedish markets / Stefan Fölster and Sam Peltzman
  • What have changes to the global markets for goods and services done to the viability of the Swedish welfare state? / Edward E. Leamer.
ISBN
  • 9780226261928 (alk. paper)
  • 0226261921 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009024336
OCLC
419262895
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