Goesta Rehn, the Swedish Model and Labour Market Policies : International and National Perspectives (Hardcover)

Contents: GA¶sta Rehn 1913-1996, Henry Milner and Eskil WadensjA¶. GA¶sta Rehn’s Contribution: The labour market policy - Rehn or Rubbestad, Eskil WadensjA¶; A Swedish economic policy - the Rehn-Meidner model’s theory, application and validity, Lennart Erixon. Swedish Perspectives: GA¶sta Rehn and the Swedish model: did we follow the Rehn-Meidner model too little rather than too much?, Klas Eklund; New conditions in the labour market, Anders BA¤ckstrA¶m; GA¶sta Rehn, civic literacy and the Swedish model, Henry Milner; Can security enhance efficiency? Testing a little-noted assumption of the Rehn-Meidner model, Axel van den Berg. Nordic Perspectives: Fragmentation and individualization? The legitimacy of corporatism among the Finnish labour force, Heikki Ervasti; Decentralized wage bargaining: a threat to incomes policy goals or an instrument of flexibility?, Geir HA¸gsnes and Frode Longva; Equality, solidarity and the welfare state. The Nordic employment performance in comparative perspective, Sven Jochem; The making of the Danish employment service, 1960-72. Central and local policy choices, employer demand and trade union resistance, Christian Toft. European Perspectives: Rehn-Meidner and Austro-Keynesianism: two post-keynesian roads to higher employment, Markus Marterbauer; GA¶sta Rehn, the Swedish model and the Dutch miracle, Jelle Visser; Assessing the influence of GA¶sta Rehn in France, Dominique Anxo, Christine Brossier and Bernard Gazier; Missed opportunities: British social democracy and the Rehn model, 1951-1964, Mark Wickham-Jones; Bibliography of the writings of GA¶sta Rehn, Eskil WadensjA¶; Notes on the authors.