Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden Book

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel

1. Searching for Optimal Inequality / Incentives

Anders Björklund and Richard B. Freeman

2. Policies Affecting Work Patterns and Labor Income for Women

Ann-Sofi e Kolm and Edward P. Lazear

3. Wage Determination and Employment in Sweden Since the Early 1990s: Wage Formation in a New Setting

Peter Fredriksson and Robert Topel

4. Labor Supply, Tax Base, and Public Policy in Sweden

Thomas Aronsson and James R. Walker

5. Did Active Labor Market Policies Help Sweden Rebound from the Depression of the Early 1990s?

Anders Forslund and Alan Krueger

6. How Sweden’s Unemployment Became More Like Europe’s

Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent

7. Economic Performance and Market Work Activity

in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

Steven J. Davis and Magnus Henrekson

8. Competition, Regulation, and the Role of Local

Government Policies in Swedish Markets

Stefan Fölster and Sam Peltzman

9. What Have Changes to the Global Markets for Goods and Services Done to the Viability of the Swedish Welfare State?

Edward E. Leamer

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index