Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?

Per Skedinger

No 774, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Minimum wages; Low-wage competition; Laval case (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J52 J61 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2008-10-28
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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.

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