THE SWEDISH WELFARE STATE REVISITED

The Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS)

The National Bureau of Economic Research

Richard B. Freeman and Birgitta Swedenborg: Organizers

September 30-October 1, 2005

1050 Massachusetts Avenue, 3^rd floor, Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 - Shuttle bus will depart front door, Marriott Hotel, 2 Cambridge Ctr, at 8:30am for NBER
Breakfast: 8:45am - NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave, check in with 3^rd floor receptionist
	9:15am	Richard B. Freeman, NBER Birgitta Swedenborg, SNS “Introduction and Macro Background”
	9:45am	Anders Björklund, Swedish Institute for Social Research Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER “Ten Years after the Crisis: Is Sweden Still an Equal Society”
	10:45am	Break
	11:00am	Rikard Forslid, Stockholm University Edward Leamer, UC, Los Angeles and NBER “What Have Changes in the Global Markets for Goods and Services Done to the Viability of the Swedish Welfare State”
Lunch: 12:00pm
	1:00pm	Anders Forslund, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation Alan Krueger, Princeton University and NBER “Swedish ALMPs Revisited”
	2:00pm	Ann-Sofie Kolm, Stockholm University Edward Lazear, Stanford University and NBER “Social Policies Affecting Women: The Swedish Case”
	3:00pm	Break
	3:15pm	Stefan Fölster, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise Sam Peltzman, University of Chicago “Competition and Regulation in Swedish Markets: An Analysis of Remaining Problems”
	4:15pm	Adjourn
Shuttle Bus will return to Marriott Hotel, 2 Cambridge Ctr, Corner of Broadway and 3^rd Street 4:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm, Legal Seafoods, 5 Cambridge Ctr, 617-864-3400 (next to Marriott Hotel)
SATURDAY, October 1 Shuttle bus will depart front door of Marriott Hotel, 2 Cambridge Ctr, at 8:00am for NBER
Breakfast: 8:15am NBER, 1050 Mass. Ave, 2^nd floor: entry instructions will be posted in the street level foyer)
	8:45am	Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University Robert Topel, University of Chicago and NBER “Changes in Wage Formation, Wage Dispersion, and Employment Since the Early 1990s”
	9:45am	Thomas Aronsson, Umeå University James Walker, University of Wisconsin and NBER “Labor Supply, Tax Base, and Public Policy in Sweden”
	10:45am	Break
	11:00am	Lars Ljungqvist, Stockholm School of Economics Thomas Sargent, New York University and NBER “How Sweden’s Unemployment Became More Like Europe’s”
Lunch: 12:00pm
Group Discussion: 1:00pm
Adjourn: 3:00pm