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Full Employment and the Welfare State

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  • Lindbeck, Assar

    (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN))

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What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

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  • Lindbeck, Assar, 2012. "Full Employment and the Welfare State," Working Paper Series 469, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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    1. Malinvaud, Edmund, 1998. "Megjegyzések a gazdasági rendszerek értékeléséről [Comments on the evaluation of economic systems]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(2), pages 163-172.
    2. Aloys Prinz, 2004. "Reform der Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 5(3), pages 313-332, August.
    3. Lindbeck, Assar, 2001. "Changing Tides for the Welfare State - An Essay," Working Paper Series 550, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
    4. Lindbeck, Assar, 2001. "Changing Tides For The Welfare State," Seminar Papers 694, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies.

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    Keywords

    EMPLOYMENT; LABOUR MARKET; WELFARE STATE;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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