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  2. Swedish Public Employment Service - Wikipedia

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    Swedish Public Employment Service. The Swedish Public Employment Service (Swedish: Arbetsförmedlingen) is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Employment mainly responsible for the public employment service in Sweden and the implementation of labour market policies. The agency should help facilitate meetings and bring ...

  3. Ministry of Employment (Sweden) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.sweden.gov.se /sb /d /8281. The Ministry of Employment (Swedish: Arbetsmarknadsdepartementet) is a ministry in the Swedish government responsible for labour market, labour law and the work environment. The Ministry is also responsible for the work of advancing gender equality and human rights at national level.

  4. Taxation in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Local income tax and the equalization system. The main source for local authorities and country councils in Sweden is a local income tax which is paid by 85% of the population. These 85% are citizens earning above a certain level of income, and the tax is added to the national income tax. Sweden has various types of local authority with 290 ...

  5. Unemployment funds in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    In Sweden, an unemployment fund ( Swedish: arbetslöshetskassa) is an economic association tied to a trade union, except the Unemployment fund Alfa and a few unemployment funds for self-employed and employers. Since July 1, 2002, an unemployment fund is to some extent equal to a government agency, and is as thus comprised by the Freedom of the ...

  6. Employee funds - Wikipedia

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    Employee funds (Swedish: Löntagarfonder), sometimes referred to as Wage Earner funds, [1] is a socialist version of sovereign wealth funds whereby the Swedish government taxed a proportion of company profits and put into special funds charged to buy shares in listed Swedish companies, with the goal of gradually transferring ownership in medium to large companies from private to collective ...

  7. Unemployment benefits in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    As declared by the Swedish Unemployment Insurance Bard (IAF) [ 2] in 2006, 553,000 workers received benefits during the year, and the unemployment funds paid them 29.9 billion SEK, or an average 54,069 SEK per applicant. In fact, a form of intra-fund solidarity can be traced up; funds usually do not compete for members, as the trade unions ...

  8. Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.tco.se. The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees (Swedish: Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation, TCO, literary White-collar workers' Central Organisation) is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation for 12 trade unions in Sweden that organise professional and other qualified employees in both the private ...

  9. Social security in Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Social security in Sweden is an aspect of the Swedish welfare system and consists of various social insurances handled by the National Agency for Social Insurance (Swedish: Försäkringskassan), and welfare provided based on need by local municipalities. Social security is the main conduit for redistribution of approximately 20% of the Swedish ...