What is it about?

The publication challenges the idea that economic equality and compressed wage structures create disincentives to work for marginal workers (e.g. persons with disabilities or with ethnic minority background)

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Why is it important?

The publication criticises the tendency to justify general cuts in wages or benefit levels as a tool for higher employment rates

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Research should critically scrutinise the more or less implicit assumptions behind measures that result in economic hardship for more people who have jobs

Professor Bjorn Hvinden
Hogskolen i Oslo og Akershus

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This page is a summary of: The Nordic Welfare Model in the Twenty-First Century: The Bumble-Bee Still Flies!, Social Policy and Society, April 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746415000135.
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