Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?

Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the challenges to the model represented by increasing low-wage competition from new EU member states and the verdict in the Laval case, related to this process and the first of its kind in post-enlargement EU.

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Year of publication:	2008-10-28
Authors:	Skedinger, Per
Institutions:	Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN)
Subject:	Minimum wages \| Low-wage competition \| Laval case

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Published in The Minimum Wage Revisited in the Enlarged EU , Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (eds.), 2010, chapter 12, pages 367-406, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, US, and International Labour Office, Geneva. The text is part of a series Working Paper Series Number 774 32 pages
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J52 - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; J81 - Working Conditions
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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