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‘Social Partnership’ not for Export
Author(s) -
Thum Max
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1985.tb01094.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , skepticism , argument (complex analysis) , welfare state , economics , social partnership , general partnership , wage , welfare , state (computer science) , social security , inflation (cosmology) , labour economics , macroeconomics , political science , market economy , law , politics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , epistemology , finance , algorithm , theoretical physics , computer science
Sweden was once held up as a model welfare state for Britain to emulate. But Swedes are having doubts. Lately Austria has been offered as a model for the achievement of low unemployment and little inflation through wage regulation by incomes policy. An Austrian and a British observer appraise the argument with differing degrees of scepticism.