European Tribune - Comments - So who's not working?

So who's not working? | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

You are right to be suspiscious Jerome (4.00 / 4)

There's a general elction coming up this september in Sweden and I suppose this "study" is FT's gift to the right-wing parties in Sweden in preparation for that.

Now we'll surely get to here this FT article about Sweden's real unemployment rate being bandied about at every interview with any of the RW party leaders.

Thanks for the advance tip-off.

by high5 on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 12:21:01 PM EST

Re: You are right to be suspiscious Jerome (4.00 / 5)

So, every time a Swedish media outlet menitions this and compares Sweden's "real" unemployment with some other country's "official" unemployment, Colman's analysis should be repeated for the country in question and used for LTEs...

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 15th, 2006 at 12:24:14 PM EST
[ Parent ]

So who's not working? | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

. Home
. About
. Contact
. New User Guide
. FAQ
. ET Editorial Guidelines
. Search
. Search (Google)

Username:
Password:

. Make a new account
. Reset password

Recommended Diaries

Recent Diaries

Socratic Economics XII: Utopian Government Finance
by Zwackus - May 25
114 comments

A Star is Born
by ChrisCook - May 23
23 comments

$1,000,000,000,00
0 or what we must remember
by Metatone - May 19
69 comments

The balance of anger and fear
by Frank Schnittger - May 17
44 comments

Stable pricing is to metaphysics as variable pricing is to...
by Upstate NY - May 16
8 comments

A little American intercine battling
by rootless2 - May 14
27 comments

Another NRW election
by DoDo - May 13
118 comments

Bundesrat saves PV (and loses Röttgen)
by DoDo - May 12
18 comments

The mainstream German Magazine Spiegel asks, has the US mixed ...
by Democrats Ramshield - May 10
27 comments

Short Term Climate Forces: Black Carbon, Methane, and...
by gmoke - May 9

Twenty days of Crisis for Cameron
by ceebs - May 9
22 comments

SYRIZA and the Eurocrats: a letter of intent
by talos - May 9
363 comments

French Parliamentary Elections: a look under the hood
by Bernard - May 8
59 comments

Sunday Train: The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Iowa...
by BruceMcF - May 6
18 comments

Greece election day II - Election diary and info
by talos - May 6
129 comments

Greece: Election day I - some background
by talos - May 6

Why haven't we had WWIII yet?
by Migeru - Apr 30
258 comments

More Diaries...

Occasional Series

Click for full list