more rapidly to the recent global financial crisis than the majority of the European Union economies, which helped Sweden …, among the economies of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Sweden has one of the largest differences … insiders enjoy high job security and outsiders are largely marginalized. This could be cause for concern, given that Sweden has …

labor market policy. We present data for Germany, Sweden, and the United States for the years 1981 to 2007 in order to …

About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in … the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …

.We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First, we … Sweden has decreased welfare. In fact, the local welfare gains push towards an increasing rather than decreasing benefit …