Conventional thinking about the 1938 Basic Agreement at Saltsjöbaden between organized labor and capital in Sweden holds that it was one of the consequences of a shift in the balance of power between workers and employers to the latter's disadvantage. But detailed archival evidence and analysis...

In a comment to Karadja & Prawitz (2019), henceforth KP, Per Pettersson-Lidbom (2020), henceforth P-L, argues that the main results in KP are severely biased. He argues that KP's results are biased due to non-classical measurement error in emigration and due to confounders related to the...

After some delays, the implementation of the EU Mediation Directive (2008/EC/52) in Sweden is back on track and the new legislative mechanisms came into force on 1 August 2011. Recent debates on the scope of application have sidetracked the implementation of the Mediation Directive by at least...

A strike insurance is integrated into a model based on one-sided private information of the firm. It is shown that the strike insurance will increase the dispute level if payments to the insurance are lump-sum or if payments from the insurance are proportional to wages. However, if wages affect...