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Do you have a link? I.e. all the Nordic countries have a majority of the population of unionized labor https://www.statista.com/statistics/1356735/labor-union

• ETH_start 3y ago
  If you search Google Scholar you can find numerous studies on the impact of unionization. Generally any non-market intervention is found to impede the efficiency of the economy. As for the Nordic countries, they are a cautionary tale. Singapore now has a huge lead on Norway in per capita GDP, despite the latter having previously been far ahead of the former, and the latter having been one of the largest oil exporters in the world for several decades: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?tab=chart&country=SGP~NOR#explore-the-data https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?... Sweden similarly has failed to maintain its world leading position in global rankings: https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/scandinavian-unexceptionalism-culture-markets-and-the-failure-of-third-way-soc https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/scandinavian-unexce...
  • pchangr 3y ago
    That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Personally I don’t care about a country productivity as much as I care about quality of life but I think that’s an entirely different discussion and it’s much more subjective as quality of life means different things for different people :)