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Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

Anders Kjellberg

Professor Emeritus

Portrait Anders Kjellberg november 2022. Photo: Emma Lord.

The Swedish unemployment insurance - will the Ghent system survive?

Author

  • Anders Kjellberg

Summary, in Swedish

I artikeln diskuteras de fackliga a-kassornas betydelse för den internationellt mycket höga fackliga organisationsgraden i Sverige. Kopplingen mellan fackföreningar och statsstödda a-kassor, det s k Ghent-systemet, tenderar emellertid undermineras av den sedan 1980-talet stigande direktanslutningen till a-kassorna. Vidare diskuteras möjliga konsekvenser av den obligatoriska arbetslöshetsförsäkring som alliansen avser införa.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

87-98

Publication/Series

Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research

Volume

12

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

European Trade Union Institute

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • LO
  • union density
  • white-collar workers
  • unemployment
  • sociology
  • department of sociology
  • sociologiska institutionen
  • arbetsliv
  • Ghent system
  • sociologi
  • unemployment insurance
  • trade union member
  • unemployment fund
  • SACO
  • Alfa-kassan
  • trade unions
  • arbetsmarknad
  • industrial relations
  • blue-collar workers
  • TCO

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1024-2589