| Titre | Activated to Work? Activation Policies in Sweden in the 1990s | |
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| Auteur | Bergmark Åke | |
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Revue | Revue française des Affaires sociales |
| Numéro | no 4, 2003 L'État providence nordique : ajustements, transformations au cours des années quatre-vingt-dix | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les politiques d'activation |
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| Page | 291-306 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The deep economic recession that hit Sweden in the 1990s led to a massive increase in unemployment and generated cutbacks in most social policy programmes. The downturn in the labour market was more severe in Sweden than in most other European countries and was unmatched since the 1930s. The situation was in many respects unfamiliar to a nation that had experienced full employment for more than half a century and the preconditions for national labour market policy were hence fundamentally altered. Active labour market policy has by tradition been an integrated part of Swedish macroeconomic policy and used in order to facilitate structural changes in the economy. With the rising unemployment figures, national activation programs changed character as they became more diversified and less expensive and moved from being an instrument for matching the workforce to the demands of the labour market, to a general tool for fighting mass unemployment. In the 1990s Sweden, as many other European countries, experienced an increase of “welfare to work” programs, where eligibility for social assistance, supported by legal and institutional changes, was tied to participation in activation measures. This is a development that have been criticised – partly for endangering citizen rights for vulnerable groups and partly for lack of evidence of any positive effects. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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