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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Market Factors in Sweden
Author: Market Factors in Sweden
Author: Population, Economy, and Welfare in Sweden
Author: Tommy BengtssonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642851703
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Tommy Bengtsson The Swedish welfare model of the 1960s and 1970s excited great interest among many other countries. Today it still is an ideal image for some but a warning for many others. The reason why opinion about the Swedish welfare model has changed is primarily Sweden's financial problems, which are associated with a badly financed and excessively large public sector. It is argued that the size of the budget deficit is a great problem in itself, but also, and perhaps more importantly, that the large public sector has negative effects on the entire economy since it lead to inefficient allocation of resources. A first step in order to solve these problems is to examine how they arose. The questions then are to what extent the large public sector which Sweden has today results from social entitlements which have come into existence since the 1960s, from the maturing of welfare systems decided upon earlier, from unfavourable demographic developments, or from economic stagnation, and how these factors are interlinked. What is quite clear is that Sweden has had very low economic growth during the 1970s and 1980s compared with the preceding period. But so have many other industrial countries, without their having in consequence found themselves in diffi culties as great as Sweden's. Therefore economic stagnation alone cannot explain Sweden's situation.
The World Bank Research Observer
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Category : Computer network resources
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
An Economic History of Modern Sweden
Author: Lennart SchönPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136338500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for sectors and branches covering the whole economy, even including estimates of non-marketed domestic work. It is also based on a broad literature from Swedish historiography with details on the individual level of firms, innovators and entrepreneurs. Focus is upon the interplay between technological, economic and social change where a number of broad themes are treated with a general interest to historians or economists, e.g. the role of social change and domestic markets versus international specialisation and exports as dynamic factors in Swedish economic growth.
Entering the Swedish Market
Author: Sebastian MeyerPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638770303
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2,0, Anglia Ruskin University (Ashcroft Business School), course: International Marketing, 20 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As one of Europe's oldest and largest over-the-counter retailers Karstadt GmbH, subsidiary of Karstadt Quelle AG (Figure 1), operates exclusively in Germany. The present assignment puts forward the proposal that Karstadt GmbH should attempt to penetrate the Swedish market. Furthermore, a PEST analysis and a risk assessment as well as a market entry plan and a final conclusion will form different parts of this work
The Market Comes to Education in Sweden
Author: Anders BjorklundPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440552
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A large central government providing numerous public services has long been a hallmark of Swedish society, which is also well-known for its pursuit of equality. Yet in the 1990s, Sweden moved away from this tradition in education, introducing market-oriented reforms that decentralized authority over public schools and encouraged competition between private and public schools. Many wondered if this approach would improve educational quality, or if it might expand inequality that Sweden has fought so hard to hold down. In The Market Comes to Education in Sweden, economists Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan Krueger measure the impact of Sweden's bold experiment in governing and help answer the questions that societies across the globe have been debating as they try to improve their children's education. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden injects some much-needed objectivity into the heavily politicized debate about the effectiveness of educational reform. While advocates for reform herald the effectiveness of competition in improving outcomes, others suggest that the reforms will grossly increase educational inequality for young people. The authors find that increased competition did help improve students' math and language skills, but only slightly, and with no effect on the performance of foreign-born students and those with low-educated parents. They also find some signs of increasing school segregation and wider inequality in student performance, but nothing near the doomsday scenarios many feared. In fact, the authors note that the relationship between family background and school performance has hardly budged since before the reforms were enacted. The authors conclude by providing valuable recommendations for school reform, such as strengthening school evaluation criteria, which are essential for parents, students, and governments to make competent decisions regarding education. Whether or not the market-oriented reforms to Sweden's educational system succeed will have far reaching implications for other countries considering the same course of action. The Market Comes to Education in Sweden offers firm empirical answers to the questions raised by school reform and brings crucial facts to the debate over the future of schooling in countries across the world.
The Swedish Experiment
Author: Assar LindbeckPublisher: Center for Business and Policy Studies
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In The Swedish Experiment Assar Lindbeck characterizes the economic and social system in Sweden in terms of a number of institutional features by which Sweden has differed from most other developed countries. They refer mainly to the division of responsibilities between the private and the government sector, in particular with respect to economic security, employment, income distribution, consumption and investment. The book concludes by asking whether the Swedish experiment is gradually unwinding and, if so, why. The Swedish Experiment is written in a nontechnical fashion and should be of great interest not only to professional economists, but also to students of economics and other social sciences as well as to general readers.
Economic Growth and Migration During the Industrialization of Sweden
Author: Urban KarlströmPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An Economic History of Sweden
Author: Lars MagnussonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113467595X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It traces the rapid industrialisation, the political currents and the social ambitions, that transformed Sweden from a backward agrarian economy into what is now regarded by many as a model welfar