Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment fell by more than 20 %. The decentralisation of wage bargaining that started in 1983 may have contributed to this by making employment more shock sensitive or by increasing...

Structural change and international integration of the European single market / Fabrizio Onida -- Commentaries on structural change / John Butcher ... [et al.] -- Will the automobile industry go the way of the steel industry? / Frank D. Weiss -- Commentaries on automobiles and steel / G. Mustafa...