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Regional inequality is low in Sweden compared to most other OECD countries, but has been rising over the past decades …
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Regional inequality has increased in Sweden over the past decades, albeit from a low level. While redistribution and …
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Republic of Germany, Sweden and the United States. The simulation results indicate that these changes could have a major impact …
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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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, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. In that way, Sweden took early action compared to other OECD … regulatory reform is needed to safeguard Sweden’s ambitious public policy goals. Efforts should focus on improving enterprise …
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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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rental housing sector. This paper relates to the OECD Economic Survey of Sweden 2007 (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/sweden). …
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Problems of unemployment and low pay amongst the low-skilled and those with little work experience are severe in many OECD countries. Employment-conditional schemes are policy instruments designed to increase the employment prospects of the low-skilled as well as to support their living...
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This paper reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Swedish healthcare system and the challenges that it will face in the future. It discusses ways to improve access to primary care, including different methods for paying GPs, whether access is less equitable than in other countries and the...
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This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear...
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