Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81396 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 774
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
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.
Subjects: 
Minimum wages
Low-wage competition
Laval case
JEL: 
J31
J52
J61
J81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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