Non-standard Employment in Sweden

Non - Standard Employment in Europe . Paradigms , Prevalence and Policy Responses

subtopic had been dealt with more concisely. In effect, Terhoeven offers a book about the RAF’s communication strategy within a book that deals with the Italian–German case. The sixth chapter offers a return to the main case study: the author analyses the reception of the ‘‘German autumn’’ in Italy in an exemplary and profound manner. Although she is not the first to write about it, it is fasci...

Non-standard Employment, Working Time Arrangements, Establishment Entry and Exit

This paper addresses the issue if and to what extent young firms differ from incumbents regarding the use of non-standard employment, trust-based working time arrangements and overtime hours in the light of the qualitative changes of employment structures that are taking place in industrialized countries, such as rising shares of non-standard employment and borders between work and private life...

Neighbourhood non-employment and daily smoking: a population-based study of women and men in Sweden.

BACKGROUND To examine whether neighbourhood non-employment is associated with daily smoking after adjustment for individual characteristics, such as employment status. METHODS Cross-sectional study of a simple, random sample of 31,164 women and men aged 25-64, representative of the entire population in Sweden. Data were collected from the years 1993-2000. The individual variables included age...

Supported Employment and Social Inclusion – Experiences of Workers with Disabilities in Wage Subsidized Employment in Sweden

Public Employment and the Welfare State in Sweden

This is a nontechnical summary of a much longer study which will appear with the same title in Richard Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds. (forthcoming). I am especially indebted to Henry Ohlsson and Birgitta Swedenborg, and to Stan Engerman, Vic Fuchs, Assar Lindbeck, Stephen Lundgren, and Agnar Sandmo for comments on initial drafts. I alone am responsible for the views expres...