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Centralised wage bargaining and structural change in Sweden
2003
European Review of Economic History
There is a general consensus among scholars that centralized wage bargaining played a key role in the ability of Sweden to maintain wage moderation in the early post-WW II period. Conventional wisdom suggests that it worked through one of two mechanisms; internalization of the negative externalities associated with excessive wage settlements or implicit contracts that favoured cooperation between capital and labour over conflict. We contend, instead, that centralized wage bargaining was
doi:10.1017/s1361491603000121
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