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Sweden is a very egalitarian country but inequalities have risen and some groups are poorly integrated into the labour …
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Extensive structural reforms since the early 1990s have strengthened the resilience of the Swedish economy to shocks. However, more needs to be done to better manage near-term risks and ensure that growth remains sustainable in the longer run. Reforming the housing market would reduce the risks...
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Sweden than in the euro area, United Kingdom and United States. The pass-through from money market rates to retail rates is …
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This paper analyses the main features of Sweden’s public expenditure and addresses some key policy issues. Public …
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Average inflation in Sweden has been one of the lowest among European countries since the mid- 1990s. Three supply … the policy options for the central bank. This paper relates to the OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2007 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/sweden …
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This paper analyses Sweden’s policies for addressing a range of key environmental challenges. Although Sweden has a … Sweden to refine and extend the use of economic instruments to achieve better environmental outcomes in each of these areas … measures that have been put in place, would help Sweden to achieve its desired environmental objectives in the least costly way …
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The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage population both in the form of income replacements and income supplements and as services for health-, child- and elderly care. The available evidence, reviewed in this <I>Working...</i>
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Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … room to boost competition in Sweden’s large and decentralised public sector and in its interactions with the private sector …
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rental housing sector. This paper relates to the OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2007 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/sweden …
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Sweden has developed an extensive and sound policy framework to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It is now one of the … from emissions growth. However, as Sweden has already significantly lowered its greenhouse gas emissions, the cost of … reducing them further could be very high, making it urgent to improve the cost-effectiveness of Sweden’s climate change …
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