Working Paper No. 469

Full Employment and the Welfare State

Working Paper
Reference
Lindbeck, Assar (1996). “Full Employment and the Welfare State”. IFN Working Paper No. 469. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Author
Assar Lindbeck

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?