What Is the Nordic Model?
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1.Which five countries are Nordic, per the Nordic Council of Ministers?
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2.Which are the three parts of Denmark's golden triangle?
Active labour market policy means help and training aimed at getting people back to work.
3.What share of Swedish employees were union members in 2024, per the OECD?
Bargaining agreements covered about 88 percent of employees that year, once adjusted.
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Sources (8)
- Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment (STAR, Danish Ministry of Employment): Flexicurity
- OECD/AIAS ICTWSS Database: Sweden, Main indicators and characteristics of collective bargaining (Version October 2025)
- OECD: Revenue Statistics 2025 (Pressemitteilung "Labour taxes drive OECD tax revenues to record high in 2024", December 2025)
- Kenworthy, L.: Social Democratic Capitalism, Oxford University Press (2019/2020); eigene Einfuehrung "My new book: Social Democratic Capitalism" (lanekenworthy.net, October 2019)
- Sanandaji, N.: Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism, Institute of Economic Affairs, Readings in Political Economy 1 (2015)
- Sveriges Riksbank: History of the inflation target
- Nordic Council of Ministers (norden.org): Mitgliedschaft (Suchauszug); Europaeische Union / EWSA-Stellungnahme 2006 zu Flexicurity in Daenemark (EUR-Lex 52006IE0740, Suchauszug)
- Eigene Rechnung: Steuerquote Daenemark minus OECD-Durchschnitt
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