Young-Kyu Shin is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. Areas of research include comparative social policy, labor market policy, social security and public health policy. For more information about Young-Kyu Shin, click here.
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2020.03.19 | Article, Young-Kyu Shin, Petri Böckerman, Research, Public policy, The Nordic Model
The Nordic countries have some of the highest trade union rates of membership in the world. This has by some been attributed to unemployment insurance being largely administered by trade unions. Since around 1910, unemployment insurance in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland and Sweden has been based on a voluntary system (‘Ghent’), rather than…