Sweden is a small market economy, with ten million inhabitants, dominated by large export-
oriented transnational companies. Between 1995 and 2018 the export share of GDP …

For something that is often described as a faceless Brussels bureaucracy, the European
Union (EU) surprises in its ability to provoke contradictory public emotions, ranging from …

We use a power resources approach to examine the effects of the 2008–2009 financial and
economic crisis on public sector trade union power in Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK …

Since policymakers and scholars coined the term in the 1930s, the Nordic Model has often
been considered to denote a homogeneous political entity in which the constituent countries …

Wage formation in Sweden has been decentralized, and the introduction of individual
performance‐based pay has increased employer discretion. This article explores practices …

This article addresses recent developments in the debate on a European minimum wage
and tries to shed light on the Swedish standpoint, which from a European perspective might …

In this article, we analyse the relationship between the foreign sector and the 'Swedish
model'of welfare state since the 1960s. The initial hypothesis is that the old relationship …

This article explains the consent of the European Union's (EU) Nordic member states to
NextGenerationEU (NGEU). Broad domestic consensus against EU‐level fiscal federal …

This article compares the policy and collective bargaining responses in the three
Scandinavian countries to the cost-of-living crisis that began in 2021. The countries are …

The aim is to describe and explain the similarities and differences between European trade
unions concerning their views on transnational union interests and cooperation in the wake …