In this study population development is examined as the issue has been approached by printed media and to some extent politics during the period 1994–2004 in Sweden. Using bibliographic databases and particular word search the major Swedish newspapers were examined together with political...

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....

Ambitionen med detta bidrag till projektet "Den starka statens fall. Svensk politisk kultur i förändring 1975-2000", är att diskutera vilken betydelse som demografiska förändringar kan ha haft för den förändring i svensk politisk kultur, som vi kallar för "den starka statens fall". Jag...

By analysing pension reforms in three Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland and Sweden that apply different institutional solutions in their old-age security programmes – the paper argues that the political processes that shaped the country-specific pension set-ups in the 1950s and 1960s had...

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This paper estimates the effect of changes in population age structure on fertility. Few factors are as inseparable from economic and demographic theories of underdevelopment as high fertility rates. Most of the empirical literature on fertility focuses on a small set of traditionally...

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Traditionally, pension systems aim to fulfill a number of functions which include income security and consumption smoothing in old age, as well as income redistribution. The main rationale for pension reform lies in the interaction between current demographic trends (e.g. increasing old age...

INTERGENERATIONAL DOWNWARD MOBILITY – A TEST OF THREE THEORIES <p> The study uses the unique longitudinal database The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) to test three explanatory perspectives to intergenerational downward social mobility. <p> Support is received for two of the three perspectives,...</p></p>

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Nordic Social Democratic parties’ own efforts to manage the inner and outer challenges of the so-called Nordic welfare model. The relationship between what Social Democracy does and the shaping of the welfare state seems, quite simply, no longer as...