The Welfare State in Transition
Subtitle: Reforming the Swedish Model (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
Contributors: Richard B. Freeman (Editor); Robert H. Topel (Editor); Birgitta Swedenborg (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 2, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780226261782
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Public finance; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economic History; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Political Science / Social Services & Welfare; 1945-; Congresses; Economic Conditions; Sweden
First sentence: Sweden has a remarkably egalitarian distribution of income and low rate of poverty.