Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Sweden

active labour market average blue-collar cash support cent Chapter collective bargaining companies decline demand disability pensions early retirement earnings economic growth economists effect employers employment security enterprises expenditure female flexibility full employment full-time groups growing handicapped workers ibid income incomes policy increased industrial inflation labour force labour force participation Labour Force Surveys labour market policy labour market training labour mobility labour supply long-term manufacturing mimeographed non-wage labour costs OECD OECD countries older workers part-time partial pension percentage principle private sector production profit-sharing profits programmes public sector reduce relative wages rise Rudolf Meidner schemes share shift social solidaristic wage policy Source stabilisation policy Statistics Sweden Stockholm structural adjustment subsidies Swedish economy Swedish labour market Swedish model taxation trend unemployed unemployment benefits unemployment rate unions United Kingdom vacancies wage bargaining wage differentials wage drift wage-earner funds white-collar workers women youth unemployment