Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2015 - This version: August 2015
In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden … had one of the most regulated business sectors in the developed world. In the 1990s, however, Sweden reformed its labour …