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" Reforming the welfare state : "
edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel.
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1017074
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b771444
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Reforming the welfare state : : recovery and beyond in Sweden /\ edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2010.
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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1 online resource (xi, 336 pages) :: illustrations
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0226261913
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: 1282538381
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: 9780226261911
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: 9781282538382
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0226261921
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9780226261928
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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.
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Bringing together leading economists, this book examines Sweden's policies in response to the mid-1990s crisis and the implications for the subsequent recovery. Among the issues investigated are the way changes in the labour market, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure and more.
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Labor market-- Sweden.
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Manpower policy-- Sweden.
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Welfare state-- Sweden.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economic History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Comparative.
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Economic history.
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Economic policy.
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Labor market.
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Manpower policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Economic Conditions.
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Welfare state.
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Sweden, Economic conditions, 1945-
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Sweden, Economic policy.
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Sweden.
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330.9485
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HC375.R422 2010eb
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Freeman, Richard B., (Richard Barry),1943-
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Swedenborg, Birgitta,1941-
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Topel, Robert H.
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