Two of a kind

SOU 2000:83

Utgiven: oktober 2000
Typ: Statens offentliga utredningar (SOU)
Avsändare: Socialdepartementet
Forskningsrapport från Kommittén Välfärdsbokslut

Sammanfattning

This report is a modest attempt at such a comparison. The choice to compare Finland and Sweden can be justified on one hand by the fact that these countries and especially their welfare states are often grouped together in international comparisons and affiliated with the Nordic welfare model, and on the other hand because Finland and Sweden were also most similar in terms of their experience in the early 1990s. No other countries in Europe underwent such severe economic problems and rapid increases in unemployment in the early 1990s. In fact, the magnitude of the changes has no parallel among the industrialised countries during the entire post-war era. In contrast to these underlying similarities the adaptation strategies of the two countries have often been very divergent, which poses an interesting starting point for a comparison.

Publicerad 12 februari 2004
Uppdaterad 24 mars 2004