dc.contributor.author | Halvorsen, Rune | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hvinden, Bjørn | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schøyen, Mi Ah | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-29T08:10:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-29T08:10:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-04-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Halvorsen, R., Hvinden, B., & Schoyen, M. A. (2015). The Nordic Welfare Model in the Twenty-First Century: The Bumble-Bee Still Flies!. Social Policy and Society, 1-17. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1474-7464 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | FRIDAID 1236163 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/2586 | |
dc.description.abstract | The Nordic countries are admired for high employment, low levels of poverty and
inequality, encompassing welfare states, and peaceful industrial relations. Yet the model is
criticised for hampering the employment opportunities of vulnerable groups. The literature
identifies several potential mechanisms of exclusion. Compressed wage structures may
make employers reluctant to hire certain workers for fear that their productivity is too
low to justify the cost. Second, generous benefits lower individuals’ incentive to work.
Third, businesses increasingly specialise in high-skill activities. We explore these arguments
comparatively by considering the employment chances of two vulnerable groups: disabled
persons and migrants. The Nordic countries are compared with other rich democracies
that take different approaches to social protection and wage dispersion. The Nordic
countries do not perform systematically worse than other ‘varieties of capitalism’. In line
with recent research, we also find that there is considerable intra-Nordic variation, which
calls for further study | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Social Policy and Society; | en_US |
dc.subject | Employment | en_US |
dc.subject | Globalisation | en_US |
dc.subject | Nordic model | en_US |
dc.subject | Vulnerable groups | en_US |
dc.subject | Wage distribution | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Samfunnsøkonomi: 212 | en_US |
dc.title | The Nordic Welfare Model in the Twenty-First Century. The Bumble-Bee Still Flies! | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.version | Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746415000135 | |