Feminist Perspectives on the Economy within Transforming Nordic Welfare States

Feminist Perspectives on Sustainability

Migrants and health in the Nordic welfare states

This article probes into the health of migrants with a focus on the situation in the Nordic universal welfare states. The Nordic welfare states are further compared to each other with a comparison to the EU28 if possible, including investigation of the differences among the four Nordic countries. This is done by analyzing central parameters related to access to and inequality in health care. Th...

Financing the Nordic Welfare States: The Challenge of Globalization to Taxation in the Nordic countries

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

The Future of Advanced Welfare States in the Knowledge Economy

The Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – have developed a particular model of welfare, employment and economic governance. It is based on universal access to taxfinanced social services and social insurance, full employment secured by expansive macro-economic policies and active labour market policies, highly organized labour markets, corporatist interest mediation, an...