Sweden : A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?

Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the challenges to the model represented by increasing low-wage competition from new EU member states and the verdict in the Laval case, related to this process and the first of its kind in post-enlargement EU

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Skedinger, Per
Publisher:	[2011]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Tarifverhandlungen \| Collective bargaining \| Mindestlohn \| Minimum wage \| Schweden \| Sweden \| Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Niedriglohn \| Low wages \| Beschäftigungseffekt \| Employment effect

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: THE MINIMUM WAGE REVISITED IN THE ENLARGED EU, David Vaughan-Whitehead, ed., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, US, and International Labour Office, Geneva, 2010 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 28, 2008 erstellt
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J52 - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; J81 - Working Conditions
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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