The Nordic Model - Embracing globalization and sharing risks

of politicians nor those of the voters. For instance, the debate
leading to the parliamentary election of 2007 did never focus on
that issue (in contrast to the political debate in the 2006 Swedish
electoral campaign). Instead, the main electoral themes were
purely redistributive ones. Yet, the demographic transition is going
to be much faster in Finland than in Sweden and Denmark, and,
as noted, labour force participation rates in Finland for the young
and the elderly are clearly lower than Nordic averages.
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