期刊名称:Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN:0804-6824
出版年度:2006
卷号:2006
出版社:Bergen
摘要:The present paper seeks to examine why the Nordic countries performed better than most
other Western countries during the 1930s, when they at the same time experienced high
unemployment levels. The conclusions drawn here are that the early abandonment of
gold and the adoption of a more inflationary monetary policy serve as the key explanation
to the relatively mild Nordic depression and the rapid recovery. However, the paradox of
persistently high unemployment remains. By international comparisons the paper shows
that these rather can be explained by a positive shift in labour supply than the scale of the
depression. The analysis in the paper also reveals that Sweden performed more like
continental Europe in respect of both the depression and the labour market.