Ageing and Work in Sweden : Background Paper on Sweden, presented for the ‘Millennium Project’ conference in Tokyo, December 4th -6th, 2000, organized by the Japanese Ministry of Labour : Studies in the older workforce and the labour market
Sweden experienced a dramatic shakeout of the older workforce in the first half of the 1990s as part of the economic crisis 1991-94. The labour force participation rates and, even more pronounced the employment rates for the older workforce sank dramatically. However, when the Swedish economy recovered in the latter half of the 1990s the employment rates for the older workers, both for men and wom
