The Nordic approach to growth and welfare
European lessons to be learned?
Description
The EU’s Lisbon Strategy, adopted in 2000, set ambitious goals, a roadmap for achieving them and quantitative targets for 2010. Despite the view in some quarters just a few years ago that the Nordic countries were neither sustainable nor competitive, these countries have subsequently risen to become some of Europe’s most consistent performers in the efforts to reach the Lisbon targets. The intention of this book is to document how good governance has been developed in the Nordic countries. It proposes some relevant lessons for European decision-makers while highlighting individual features of the countries in the Nordic region.
Author(s)/Editor(s)
Table of contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Nordic approach to growth and welfare – Lars Magnusson, Henning Jørgensen and Jon Erik Dølvik
Chapter 2: The development of the Nordic welfare state systems – Henning Jørgensen
Chapter 3: Building bridges: Nordic industrial relations in transition – Jon Erik Dølvik
Chapter 4: Active labour market policies - Henning Jorgensen
Chapter 5: Is full employment still a part of the Nordic approach? – Lars Magnusson
Conclusions: Lars Magnusson
