The Nordic Model - Embracing globalization and sharing risks

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THE NORDIC MODEL Embracing globalization and sharing risks Torben M. Andersen, Bengt Holmström, Seppo Honkapohja, Sixten Korkman, Hans Tson Söderström, Juhana Vartiainen The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) Publisher: Taloustieto Oy
ETLA B232 ISBN 978-951-628-468-5 ISSN 0356-7443 Printed in Yliopistopaino, Helsinki, 2007
Page 1: The Nordic Model Embracing globaliz
Page 6 and 7: THE AUTHORS Torben M. Andersen is P
Page 8 and 9: CONTENTS PREFACE THE AUTHORS 1 INTR
Page 10: 8.5 The future of public services -
Page 13 and 14: Globalization is primarily an oppor
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Page 19 and 20: are the effects of technical change
Page 21 and 22: - and, particularly, their effect o
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Page 25 and 26: 1.6 AN EFFECTIVE WAGE BARGAINING PR
Page 27 and 28: etter be tried in individual cases
Page 29 and 30: The scheme of the social contract c
Page 31 and 32: is worthy and realistic. But the de
Page 33 and 34: supportive interaction of openness
Page 35 and 36: The financial deregulations in the
Page 37 and 38: horizontal axis). These indices are
Page 39 and 40: does can nowadays be seen, in a bro
Page 41 and 42: employment increases in the public
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Page 45 and 46: ENDNOTES 1 Wikipedia refers to popu
Page 47 and 48: consider employment and productivit
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As technological change is to a sig
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3.3 SOCIAL EQUALITY Economic effici
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0.9 0.8 0.7 Net Fin Den 0.9 Composi
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ANNEX: GROWTH ACCOUNTING The Nordic
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sources of GDP growth in the EU15,
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11 These decompositions have been c
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4.1 THE WELFARE STATE AS A SOCIAL C
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The extent, coverage and quality of
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% % 80 80 60 60 40 20 0 OECD max Fi
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% 80 Total Old age % 80 60 60 40 40
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tem is seriously affected. Today, t
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Historically, however, the share of
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More children. Since the problem is
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Actually higher growth may make the
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dependency ratio driven by the baby
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82 · The Nordic Model
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to handle much bigger fields today,
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Table 5.1 Projections of public hea
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5.4 AN EASY FIX - BRING SERVICES BA
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Box 5.1 Growth and the welfare stat
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it implies that the long-run defici
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The level of taxation is already hi
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One may ask why this problem arises
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globalization may contribute to bot
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able to pay to seek private solutio
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102 · The Nordic Model
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ily policies that Nordic demographi
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absolute and relative terms than hi
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in the participation decision of th
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Table 6.2 The activity rate, aggreg
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Thus, responsible unions should res
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als take part in various unemployme
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Box 6.2 What is the Danish “flexi
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ENDNOTES 1 In his history of the ec
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particularly noteworthy in a euro a
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7.2 COORDINATION AND DECENTRALIZATI
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also depends on the business cycle.
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ut not in any dramatic way (cf. fig
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displays higher nominal rigidity th
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model stem from an age in which the
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mostly in the years 1980-2000. For
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Table 8.1 Government expenditure by
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ure. This selection bias alone will
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that everyone gets their worth as m
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8.3 THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT PROVIDE
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maximizing firms tend to focus exce
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than zero based budgeting) are impe
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sectors, place at or above the medi
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The demands for objectivity limit w
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assessed case by case. The importan
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c. Vouchers Vouchers are issued by
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mechanically in the political debat
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ENDNOTES 1 The private sector inclu
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The biggest hurdle to overcome for
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ment has a higher return when spent
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REFERENCES Adema, W. and Ladaique,
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Jonung, L. and Hagberg, T. (2005):
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Is there a Nordic model? What are t
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