Unemployment insurance for platform workers: Challenges and approaches from a comparative perspective

A Barrio - European Journal of Social Security, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This contribution presents an overview of the challenges involved in ensuring that persons
performing platform work (as either employees, self-employed, or in a third category) are …

The Ghent system in transition: Unions' evolving role in Sweden's multi-pillar unemployment benefit system

J Lindellee, T Berglund - Transfer: European Review of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article discusses the multi-faceted and changing role played by trade unions in
providing unemployment benefits in Sweden, a country using the so-called Ghent system …

Restructuring regimes in and between two crises: A comparison of Sweden and the UK

R Ahlstrand, CJ McLachlan… - European journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper compares responses to crises through analysis of labour market policy in
Sweden and the UK between the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. In …

Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916

LF Andersson, L Eriksson, B Harris - Labor History, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Welfare researchers have regarded statutory accident insurance in 1916 as a starting point
for the exceptional expansion of the Swedish welfare state. However, rather less attention …

Arbetsmarknadspolitik som regionalpolitik: Fonden för vissa stödåtgärder inom malmkommunerna 1938–1961

M Eriksson - 2021 - diva-portal.org
Uppsatsen behandlar Fonden för vissa stödåtgärder inom malmkommunerna som ett
exempel på hur mellankrigstidens regionalpolitik tog sig uttryck i Sverige. Den visar att en …

[PDF][PDF] Göteborg Papers in Economic History

J Hamark, J Lapidus - academia.edu
Research on labour markets conflicts has come a long way. Today we know that conflicts
vary over business cycles and with the design of labour market institutions; they tend to …

Unions, insurance and changing welfare states: The emergence of obligatory complementary income insurance in Sweden

J Hamark, J Lapidus - 2022 - gupea.ub.gu.se
Why do unions that support comprehensive public unemployment insurance introduce the
private alternative known as obligatory complementary income insurance (OCII)? In this …