Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden.

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Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert H. Topel, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this winter for $99.00.

During the twentieth century, Sweden developed a large and active welfare state with generous social programs. More recently, Sweden has been discussed as a model of how to deal with financial and economic crisis because it recovered from a banking crisis in the mid-1990s. Reforming the Welfare State examines Sweden's policies in response to that crisis and their implications for the subsequent recovery, Among the issues investigated in this volume are how labor market changes, tax and benefit policies, local government policy, industrial structure...