ABSTRACT This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questions about the initial impetus for statutory regulation, the number and quality of significant employment protection measures adopted and the positions of stakeholders with interests in the reform decision making process. It does this by drawing on a variety of both primary and secondary source materials such as employment protection databases, translated parliamentary records and research publications. At the same time, it assesses the explanatory merit of proposed hypotheses in the literature by testing them against the available empirical evidence. Several interesting findings emerged from this study.

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瑞典就业保护立法的发展

摘要 本文探讨了瑞典的就业保护立法如何以及为何以这种方式从早期发展到现在。它希望能够回答有关法规监管的最初动力、采取的重要就业保护措施的数量和质量以及利益相关者在改革决策过程中的立场等问题。它通过利用各种主要和次要来源材料来做到这一点，例如就业保护数据库、翻译的议会记录和研究出版物。同时，它通过对现有经验证据进行测试来评估文献中提出的假设的解释价值。这项研究得出了几个有趣的发现。