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1. Long-term unemployment scarring and the role of labour market policies : The case of Sweden in the 1990s
Abstract : The experience of unemployment puts individuals at risk of long-term negative scarring and the longer the unemployment spell, the greater the risk of negative scarring. In Sweden, labour market policies aim at reducing such risks in the form of unemployment benefits, active matching and active labour market policy programmes (ALMPs). READ MORE
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2. Beyond Retrenchment : Multi-Pillarization of Unemployment Benefit Provision in Sweden
Abstract : The unemployed in Sweden today have to relate to several types of benefit schemes. Apart from the public unemployment insurance program, different workplaces are covered by different complementary benefit arrangements regulated by collective agreements between employer and union organizations. READ MORE
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3. Making the Poor Work : Social Assistance and Activation in Sweden
Abstract : Management of poor relief and work demands have been controversial questions in social policy during the workhouse era of the nineteenth century as well as in current discussions on social assistance and activation of recipients. The first part contains a discussion on the concepts of poverty, marginalisation, and social exclusion, and continues with an overview of activation policies for recipients of social assistance. READ MORE
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4. Why Work? : Comparative Studies on Welfare Regimes and Individuals' Work Orientations
Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how different welfare and production regimes may have structured individuals’ work orientations into cross-national patterns by the late 1990s and early 2000s. Three different aspects of work orientations are considered in the three studies. READ MORE
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5. Wage formation in a unionized economy
Abstract : Around 85 percent of all blue-collar workers in Sweden are organized in an all-encompassing union, Landsorganisationen (LO). During the last decade, this fact has given rise to quite lively research on centralized wage formation. READ MORE