Archive for July 15th, 2008
Employment
While I’m fighting my brain to get back on track and get some good ideas for a piece about employment policy in Sweden and Denmark, some data about the employment ratio in the two countries between 1960 and 2005:
The second figure is a bit more tricky and you shouldn’t use it out of the box (I made the calculations late Monday night) but show the relative amount of money spent on active measures:
The original data was complied by Klaus Armingeon and his research team.
links for 2008-07-15
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“I found myself moved and disturbed by this man’s perspective, because I sometimes express sympathy towards similar criticisms of academics and experts … what the segment reminded me is that overindulgence of that perspective carries its own dangers.”
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Men tyvärr har flera nationer, i skuggan av verkliga eller inbillade terrorhot, öppnat Pandoras ask när det gäller alltför långtgående motåtgärder.
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We are losing sight of the difference between thought and deed, between the imagined and the real