By analysing how changes in social security systems are motivated, how they are implemented and what consequences they entail for the individual, this dissertation shows how ideological shifts within the Swedish work strategy are put into practice. The findings presented stress that the responsibility for exiting unemployment and/or sick leave has become increasingly a matter for the individual to handle on their own. This is done mainly by lowering the degree of economic and social support to individuals whilst being labour market absent, but also by neglecting investment in long-term efforts aiming to tackle the challenges of labour market absence. Instead, the political strategy is characterised by reducing labour market absence through ...
The 1990s were a period of economic crisis and mass unemployment. The dissertation shows that in the...
In contemporary Sweden, welfare professionals are mobilising to signal that they lack the preconditi...
The Swedish welfare society can be advocated as a social safety net with the intention of giving cit...
By analysing how changes in social security systems are motivated, how they are implemented and what...
When analysing what the concept of work has meant historically in Sweden, acomplex image of shifting...
The aim of the thesis is to highlight and to problematize conceptions of unemployment in Swedish soc...
This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state...
Between 1990 and 1992/1993 there was a dramatic change in the Swedish labor market, resulting in an ...
The subject of this study is the “work strategy” (arbetslinjen); the idea that work and active measu...
The article focuses on the formation of the ideal “active citizen ” in labour mar-ket policy and ana...
In Sweden, unlike for example Norway, problems associated with people "falling between the cracks" a...
Swedish labour market policy has changed towards a greater focus on activation of unemployed citizen...
In 1997 the number of long-term absences due to illness began and continued to rise in Sweden. Tradi...
The purpose of this essay has been to investigate how the latest years of effectiveness in social po...
Labour market policies has two aims: cushioning the economic hardship caused by unemployment and inc...
The 1990s were a period of economic crisis and mass unemployment. The dissertation shows that in the...
In contemporary Sweden, welfare professionals are mobilising to signal that they lack the preconditi...
The Swedish welfare society can be advocated as a social safety net with the intention of giving cit...
By analysing how changes in social security systems are motivated, how they are implemented and what...
When analysing what the concept of work has meant historically in Sweden, acomplex image of shifting...
The aim of the thesis is to highlight and to problematize conceptions of unemployment in Swedish soc...
This economic history dissertation explores a central contradiction within the Swedish welfare state...
Between 1990 and 1992/1993 there was a dramatic change in the Swedish labor market, resulting in an ...
The subject of this study is the “work strategy” (arbetslinjen); the idea that work and active measu...
The article focuses on the formation of the ideal “active citizen ” in labour mar-ket policy and ana...
In Sweden, unlike for example Norway, problems associated with people "falling between the cracks" a...
Swedish labour market policy has changed towards a greater focus on activation of unemployed citizen...
In 1997 the number of long-term absences due to illness began and continued to rise in Sweden. Tradi...
The purpose of this essay has been to investigate how the latest years of effectiveness in social po...
Labour market policies has two aims: cushioning the economic hardship caused by unemployment and inc...
The 1990s were a period of economic crisis and mass unemployment. The dissertation shows that in the...
In contemporary Sweden, welfare professionals are mobilising to signal that they lack the preconditi...
The Swedish welfare society can be advocated as a social safety net with the intention of giving cit...