The Orange Path

Swedish Unemployment

By David Ibison
Financial Times, 15th June 2006

Sweden's unemployment rate is 15 per cent, three times the figure being
used by the government, according to new research from McKinsey Global
Institute, the think tank...
The numbers cast a pall over Sweden's international reputation as a thriving welfare state with low unemployment

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Sweden's Unemployment Rate

by Johan Norberg

10.3% unemployed - that´s the number you should use every time you compare the Swedish unemployment rate with other countries. And that´s much closer to France (9.8%) and Germany (11,6%), than to the Anglo-Saxon economies. Anyone who uses the 5.4%-rate is helping the government to hide the real facts, whether they know it or not.

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