Assignment
Field notes from Sweden, Part A: Unemployment, Alcoholism, and the Swedish Black Market
Task
1. What makes Sweden's welfare system different from the U.S. system?
2. Describe the unique problem of Sweden's alcohol tax. Do we have this problem in the United States? Why or why not?
3. What is the governing party of Sweden? What future political challenges does the Swedish leadership face in this article?
4. What is the VAT? How much is it in Sweden? How does this compare with U.S. tax rates?
5. What kind of alcohol policies does the Swedish government have? How are these different from the United States? Are there similarities?
Field notes from Sweden, Part B: Europe's Population Implosion Breeds Financial Hardship: The Swedish Case
Task
1. What is population implosion? What are some key problems with it?
2. What is the ‘Folkhemmet'? How does population implosion threaten it?
3. How does Sweden's population implosion reflect future problems for the United States? How can the United States make changes to avoid Sweden's crisis?
4. What advantages did Sweden have in the past to allow it to build the Folkhemmet?
5. What other pressures exists beside population implosion for Sweden to reform its economic policies?
Field Notes from Sweden, Part C: The High Cost of Employment and the Zero Employee Firms of Sweden
Task
1. What are "black jobs" in Sweden? Does the U.S. have them?
2. How did Swedish workers become so sick? How can this problem be corrected?
3. Why are employees so expensive in Sweden? What kinds of negative impacts do these high costs have on the Swedish economy?
4. What kind of economic system does Sweden have? What are some of the positive components to it? Why would some people like it?
5. How is the U.S. job market different from Sweden's?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- FIELD-NOTES-FROM-SWEDEN.rar