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Wage differentials, economic restructuring and the solidaristic wage policy in Sweden
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The peer-reviewed European Review of Economic History article consulted for the timing and interpretation of Swedish wage compression.
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The centralized-bargaining episode compressed wage differentials, especially during the 1970s, but this evidence does not establish the broader distribution of income, wealth, control, or adjustment costs.
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Swedish wage inequality remained stable from the introduction of centralized bargaining until the late 1960s and then declined rapidly; Molinder attributes a substantial part of the 1970s decline to deliberate union policy.
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Molinder finds that declining wage dispersion coincided with falling growth and structural change, challenging a simple claim that solidaristic wage compression generated the earlier restructuring peak.
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