A comparison of global crisis impacts on welfare states in Norway, Sweden and Iceland
| Author: | Bc. Zuzana Miesslerová |
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| Year: | 2011 - summer |
| Leaders: | prof. PhDr. Petr Teplý Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | Czech |
| Pages: | 56 |
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| Abstract: | The BA thesis compares effects of global economic crissis on economy, welfare state and society of three Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Despite the fact that all these three countries are characterized by high welfare spending, which, in the time of crissis, has tendency to increase while the state income decreses, the economic problems have not resulted in significant erosion of existing welfare state in any of these countries. However, the development of the crissis differed due to different structure of economy in each country: Iceland has been havily damaged by colapse of its hypertrophied finance sector, Sweden has been damaged severely, but thanks to its flexible industry has been fast back on its track, and Norway thanks to its oil exports has barely noticed the crissis. Despite robust welfare state, especially on Iceland the negative social effects generated by the crisses have not been compensated. However, the welfare state remained in all three countries a key tool to deal with economic crissis consequences for their respective governements. |
