Can the Rehn-Meidner model be a guiding star for the EU countries like Ireland?
The NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute) will hold a seminar on Wednesday, 17th July 2013 entitled “Can the Rehn-Meidner model be a guiding star for the EU countries like Ireland?” The NERI seminar series aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research papers on topics of relevance to Irish public policy (North and South) and will take the format of a presentation of the research (25-30mins) followed by a questions and answers/discussion (30-40mins). The seminars are open to all who are interested and are free to attend.
Details of the next seminar are:
Date: Wednesday 17th July 2013 Topic: Can the Rehn-Meidner model be a guiding star for the EU countries like Ireland? Speaker: Lennart Erixon, Professor of Economics, University of Stockholm Venue: INTO Learning Centre, 38 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 (directions available at www.NERInstitute.net/events) Time: Tea and coffee from 3:50pm; seminar commences at 4pm Abstract: Can the Rehn-Meidner model be a guiding star for the EU countries like Ireland? The validity of a unique Swedish economic-policy programme for macroeconomic stability, growth and fairness.
The Rehn-Meidner model is a unique economic-policy programme developed by two Swedish trade-union economists in the early postwar period. The programme advocates active labour market policies, restrictive macroeconomic policy in the medium term and solidarity wages to combine full employment, price stability, growth and equity. The seminar surveys the Rehn-Meidner policy programme, the underpinning theory and the macroeconomic problems in Sweden leading to the development of the programme. It also describes the practice of the Rehn-Meidner model in Sweden. The 1960s and early 1970s were the heydays of the Rehn-Meidner policies. But active labour market policy in particular continued to be an important feature of “the Swedish model” regardless of the colour of the government. Finally the seminar discusses the relevance of the Rehn-Meidner policy model, for Sweden and other EU countries, today. We will pay a particular interest in comparing the Rehn-Meidner model with the so-called Danish flexicurity model.
Keywords: Economic model, Sweden, Europe, Labour Markets
More details, including a number of research papers from the seminar presenter, are available here: http://people.su.se/~erixo/
To register your interest in attending and for further details please e-mail info@nerinstitute.net Please forward to others who may be interested in attending these seminars. There will be no seminar in August and the series will recommence in September 2013. Details will be circulated in advance.
The NERI (Nevin Economic Research Institute) is a research company/think-tank on the Irish Economy launched in March 2012 and funded by a number of unions affiliated to the ICTU. It aims ‘to influence policy outcomes that have the greatest effect on the achievement of equity and fairness in the political economy on the Island of Ireland, to the benefit of working people, their families and communities and the enhancement of the quality of life of all people living on the island of Ireland, through the provision of high-quality macro and micro economic research and analyses, awareness raising and capacity building programmes’. The website of the institute is: www.NERInstitute.net
Liberty Online is produced by the Communications Department of SIPTU. Liberty Online is distributed on a regular basis to members who are on the SIPTU e-mail data base. In order to maximize circulation of this news bulletin and other messages and statements we urgently ask recipients to gather the e-mail addresses of other SIPTU members who are not already on the data base. Please forward e-mail addresses to communications@siptu.ie
SIPTU Head Office | Liberty Hall | Dublin 1 | Ireland
