This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that
capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in determining unemployment movements …

When is a country's economic performance miraculous? Current studies do not satisfactorily
answer this question because shared standards are missing, as are genuine comparative …

The high employment level is the most remarkable aspect of the Scandinavian model. With
the exception of Finland it is running at around 75 percent (see Table 1) of the working age …

Abstract1 This paper evaluates apparent changes in corporatist policy formation in nine
small North-West European nations between 1970 and 2006: Austria, Belgium, Denmark …

This article gives an empirically founded answer to the question of whether classical political
goals and instruments of social-democratic governments have been revised in view of the …

In vielen Ländern ist die Staatsverschuldung in den letzten 30 Jahren erheblich gestiegen.
Es gibt jedoch Ausnahmen: Demokratien wie Schweden, Dänemark oder Kanada gelang …

For many years now, the issue of welfare state reform has been featuring prominently at the
top of the political agenda in advanced capitalist democracies. Additionally, and related …

This article examines the experience of employment policy in Denmark as a case of how
one country deployed an experimental design to shape the evolution of its political …

We reconsider the central role of the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) in forming policy
decisions. We show that the unemployment rate does not gravitate towards the NRU due to …

Labour market dynamics in the Nordic countries according to the chain reaction theory
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