The Swedish Model Under Stress
Author | : Thorvaldur Gylfason |
Publisher | : Coronet Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Thorvaldur Gylfason |
Publisher | : Coronet Books |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Computer network resources |
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Author | : Richard B. Freeman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226261913 |
Over the course of the twentieth century, Sweden carried out one of the most ambitious experiments by a capitalist market economy in developing a large and active welfare state. Sweden's generous social programs and the economic equality they fostered became an example for other countries to emulate. Of late, Sweden has also been much discussed as a model of how to deal with financial and economic crisis, due to the country's recovery from a banking crisis in the mid-1990s. At that time economists heatedly debated whether the welfare state caused Sweden's crisis and should be reformed—a debate with clear parallels to current concerns over capitalism. Bringing together leading economists, Reforming the Welfare State examines Sweden's policies in response to the mid-1990s crisis and the implications for the subsequent recovery. Among the issues investigated are the way changes in the labor market, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure, and international trade affected Sweden's recovery. The way that Sweden addressed its economic challenges provides valuable insight into the viability of large welfare states, and more broadly, into the way modern economies deal with crisis.
Author | : Gregg Bucken-Knapp |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2009-09-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0739138189 |
Across Europe, the prospect of a rapidly shrinking workforce has put increased labor migration back on the political agenda. However, for many on the left, concerns exist that less restrictive labor migration policies threaten core features of the social democratic project. This is perhaps clearest in Sweden, which in late 2008 adopted a liberal approach to third-country national labor migration, allowing employers to hire freely from outside the European Union. Defending the Swedish Model explores the debate leading up to this reform, focusing on the preferences of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). While generally positive to the economic potential of increased labor migration, these allies remained highly skeptical towards calls from employers and bourgeois parties for liberalization. Bucken-Knapp argues that the SAP and LO develop their labor migration policy preferences on the basis of whether specific reform alternatives are perceived as being consistent with, or as undermining, the Swedish model. In the case of third-country nationals, both allies considered liberalization a threat to full employment aims, instead seeking to preserve an influential role for the state labor market board and organized labor. Bucken-Knapp also focuses on the Swedish labor migration debate prior to the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, showing how SAP concerns over potential abuse of the universal welfare state led to its support for transitional arrangements. Defending the Swedish Model illuminates the challenges faced by social democrats and trade unions when considering the need for increased labor migration.
Author | : Johannes Siegrist |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-07-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3319329375 |
This book provides a comprehensive, updated summary of research evidence on the effects of stressful working and employment conditions on workers’ health, as based on one of the worldwide leading theoretical models, effort-reward imbalance. It offers three innovative features that are appealing for research as well as for policy. Firstly, it presents and discusses comparable research findings from different continents, in particular from Japan, China, and Latin America. Secondly, it extends the conceptual framework of research on this topic by analysing associations of work stress with health in a life course perspective, and by linking these associations to the macro-level of national labour and social policies. Thirdly, the book helps to strengthen programs and policies that aim at promoting healthy work locally, nationally, and internationally, by providing solid facts on which such programs can be based.
Author | : Nils Edling |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178920125X |
In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to historicizing this idea beyond its postwar emergence. In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland chronicle the historical trajectory of “the welfare state,” tracing the variable ways in which it has been interpreted, valued, and challenged over time. Each case study generates valuable historical insights into not only the history of Northern Europe, but also the welfare state itself as both a phenomenon and a concept.
Author | : Gert Kaluza |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-09-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3662644401 |
"Stressed!" - "No time!" - "I don't know where my head is!" Stress is familiar to almost everyone, and many suffer the negative consequences of constant stress. So what to do? This book shows a variety of possible courses of action and encourages you to find your own way to a calm and healthy way of dealing with stress at work and in everyday life. It is written for stress sufferers for self-help and as comprehensible accompanying reading for stress management courses or in the context of a consultation, for personnel managers and executives in business and administration, for consultants and therapists who support stressed clients, and for everyone who wants to further develop their personal stress competence. From the contents: Instrumental stress competence: making everyday life less stressful, actively meeting demands - Mental stress competence: developing beneficial attitudes and evaluations - Regenerative stress competence: creating balance, relaxing and recovering - With checklists, exercises and numerous tips. The author: Prof. Dr. Gert Kaluza is a psychological psychotherapist and works as a trainer, coach and author in the field of individual and workplace health promotion. After working at various universities for over 20 years, he founded his own continuing education and training institute, the GKM Institute for Health Psychology, in 2002.
Author | : International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2016-11-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1475554613 |
This paper discusses the findings of the Financial System Stability Assessment for Sweden. The Swedish financial system is large and highly interconnected, putting a premium on the accompanying policy framework. Relative to the size of the domestic economy, the financial system is among Europe’s largest. It features complex domestic and international linkages, reflecting Sweden’s role as a regional financial hub. However, the macrofinancial risks have grown since 2011, for example the rising share of highly indebted households. Stress tests also suggest that banks and nonbanks are largely resilient to solvency shocks, but concerns persist about the ability of bank models to capture unexpected losses.
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Power resources |
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Author | : Loraine McKay |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-01-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3030260534 |
This book investigates how arts-based research methods can positively influence people’s resilience and well-being, particularly in constraining environments. Using examples from arts-based research methods in different contexts and from across the globe, the book brings together a diverse range of perspectives to understand how both resilience and well-being can be supported in a world that is rarely stress free. Collectively they demonstrate how arts-based research methods can: provide agency through the foregrounding of participants’ voices; afford transformational learning opportunities; create opportunities for relationship building; support creativity and new ways of thinking; generate aspirations and hope; encourage forms of communication that expose ideas, emotions and feelings that previously might not have been known or known how to be expressed; and enhance reflection and reflexivity. The authors explore how art-based practices, such as clowning, collage, dramatisation, drawing, painting, role-play and sculpting, can be used to support the resilience and well-being of individuals and groups across the lifespan, and theorize how arts-based research methods can positively contribute to participants’ positive self-esteem, self-image and ability to cope with challenges and new circumstances. Academics, professional learning facilitators, higher education students, and anyone interested in resilience and well-being in the health and education sectors will find this an interesting and engaging text.