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 …

Over the past 25 years, Sweden has gone from having one of the most generous
unemployment benefit systems among the rich democracies to one of the least. This article …

The unemployed in Sweden today have to relate to several types of benefit schemes. Apart
from the public unemployment insurance program, different workplaces are covered by …

The Swedish public unemployment insurance program is characterized by its governance
structure involving union-linked insurance funds, famously known as the Ghent system. This …

Abstract argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain
differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion …

This commentary examines the 'Ghent system'of social insurance, which has been adopted
in most countries in the Nordic region of Europe, and analyses its suitability for Australia. Of …

Trade unions invented insurance against the risk of unemployment. The union funds that
proliferated across industrialising nations throughout the nineteenth century not only …

Den nordiska välfärdsmodellen kännetecknas av universalism, en princip som är grunden
för en fördelningspolitik med progressiv ambition för jämlikhet (Anttonen, Häikiö & …

The Swedish welfare state comes with connotations such as universal, egalitarian and
generous welfare provision. Characterizing the Swedish welfare state is not merely a …