Research Report

It is likely that the corona crisis will have long-term consequences for many people’s earnings and their chances of finding employment. Individuals operating in local labor markets that were relatively strongly hit by the Swedish crisis in the 1990s had an 8–9 percent lower earnings growth two decades later compared to individuals in labor markets that were not affected as severely. This is shown in a new SNS report by economists Mattias Engdahl and Martin Nybom.

There are few signs indicating that Sweden is experiencing a level of polarization threatening to paralyze democratic conversations or processes. The Swedish party system has always been heavily polarized, and the existing ideological polarization based on a left–right dimension is more characterized by stability than by change. This is shown by four researchers in a new report released by SNS Friday 26 March: »Democracy Council Report 2021: Polarization in Sweden.«